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Norway detects radioactive iodine near Russia by Staff Writers Oslo (AFP) Aug 15, 2019 Norway's nuclear safety authority said Thursday it detected tiny amounts of radioactive iodine in a region bordering Russia after an explosion at a Russian missile testing site. The sample was collected at an air filter station in Svanhovd, in North Norway near the border with Russia, from August 9-12. On August 10, Russia's nuclear agency Rosatom said five people were killed in an explosion at the Arkhangelsk site in the far north. It later said they were testing new weapons. "At present it is not possible to determine if the last iodine detection is linked to the accident in Arkhangelsk last week," the Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority said in a statement. It said Norwegian stations detect radioactive iodine about six to eight times a year, and "the source is usually unknown". Immediately after the accident, Russia's defence ministry said there had been no radioactive contamination. Local authorities in Severodvinsk, near the site, last week initially published information about a spike in radiation, but later deleted it and a local official said that radiation levels were not above the norm. However, radiation levels were up to 16 times the norm in Severodvinsk immediately after the accident, Russia's national weather service Rosgidromet said on Tuesday. The levels returned to normal after 2.5 hours.
How NASA will protect astronauts from space radiation at the Moon Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 08, 2019 August 1972, as NASA scientist Ian Richardson remembers it, was hot. In Surrey, England, where he grew up, the fields were brown and dry, and people tried to stay indoors - out of the Sun, televisions on. But for several days that month, his TV picture kept breaking up. "Do not adjust your set," he recalls the BBC announcing. "Heat isn't causing the interference. It's sunspots." The same sunspots that disrupted the television signals led to enormous solar flares - powerful bursts of energy from th ... read more
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