Nuclear accident cover-up in Russia: Toxic cloud spreads across Europe
by: JD Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Monday, November 27, 2017
After the Russian government initially denied any knowledge there had been a nuclear accident in the country, Moscow is now backtracking with officials saying they’ve discovered “extremely high” concentrations of a radioactive isotope in parts of the country.
The acknowledgment comes amid reports that there had been a nuclear accident in Russia during the month of September, as European nations for weeks have detected traces of the isotope.
The Russian government’s admission confirmed findings by a French nuclear safety institute, the IRSN, earlier in November. The institute detected a radioactive cloud wafting over Europe, the UK’s Independent reported.
As the paper noted, Russian officials had previously denied they knew anything about a nuclear accident that may be causing the cloud.
Last month Russian state-owned nuclear company Rosatom — most recently known as the firm that successfully obtained 20 percent of all strategic U.S. uranium while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state for Barack Obama — announced at the time the accident likely occurred that “radiation around all objects of Russian nuclear infrastructure is within the norm and at the level of background radiation.”
But last week Rosgidromet, Russia’s meteorological agency, said in a statement that “probes of radioactive aerosols from monitoring stations Argayash and Novogorny were found to contain radioisotope Ru-106 [Ruthenium-106]” sometime between Sept. 25 and Oct. 1.
The isotope does not occur naturally; it is a product that comes from splitting atoms in a reactor, which is why experts were certain that there had been a nuclear accident of some kind in Russia.
Officials said that the Ru-106 was discovered in the enclave of Tatarstan, as well as parts of southern Russia. The isotope cloud managed to reach “all European countries starting in Italy and toward the north of Europe” beginning Sept. 29, said Rosgidromet.
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