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From: soren@olamb.UUCP (Soeren Rabbe)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Russian Nuclear Accident
Message-ID: <184@olamb.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-May-86 11:12:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: olamb.184
Posted: Tue May 13 11:12:25 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 15-May-86 06:20:17 EDT
References: <228@scbhq.UUCP> <144@comp.lancs.ac.uk> <642@argon.idec.stc.co.uk>
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From article <642@argon.idec.stc.co.uk>, howellg@idec.stc.co.uk (Gareth Howell):

>In article <144@comp.lancs.ac.uk> stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir) writes:
>>In article <228@scbhq.UUCP> sdp@scbhq.UUCP writes:
>>>Europe, what is happening over there?  I would greatly appreciate reading your
>>>first hand reports, and comments.
>>
>>being checked regularly, and it's been found safe so far.  The background
>>reading in the atmosphere is 20% above normal, and falling.
>>
>I think you will find that figure was 20 *times* not 20%.  However
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>that is still very low.  When it gets to 100 times, you start
>worrying.

According to the official statements in Denmark, it WAS 20%. It seems like
the radiation in the air above Denmark has been about 20% to 40% above normal.
And it is falling.

What worries me is the nature of the particles. It looks like most of the 
radiation comes from Iodine-131 which is easyly adopted in the body. What
harm it has caused is unknown. But the half-life period is about 30 days,
so the risk for further exposure will reduce fast.
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	Soren Rabbe   (AmbraSoft A/S, Denmark).