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Russian soldiers destroy laboratory at Chernobyl taking “highly active samples and samples of radionuclides"

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Emily

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https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/03...yl-laboratory/
Live updates: Russians destroy Chernobyl laboratory


By Associated Press |
PUBLISHED: March 22, 2022 at 10:20 p.m. | UPDATED: March 22, 2022 at 10:20 p.m.
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The state agency said the laboratory, built at a cost of 6 million euros with support from the European Commission, opened in 2015.

The laboratory contained “highly active samples and samples of radionuclides that are now in the hands of the enemy...
 
A lot of labs all over the world work with radionuclides in their research. Russia probably has a lot of radionuclides inside Russia at their research labs and do not need to take any of this type of material from a lab in Ukraine.

IMHO this article is an example of media exploiting a bad situation for clicks.

Russia has tons of its own radioactive materials. Already.
 
The Ukrainian safety people do have some reason for concern about this stuff moving around in a war zone. It could harm someone, or animals, if it ends up in a conflict or accident. Nobody will know what it is.
This might be a sign Russians are planning on leaving the area. They might have just wanted to secure the materials or they are interested in the research. That could be why the lab was destroyed.
 
Dirty bomb ingredients go missing from Chornobyl monitoring lab

Insecure radioactive materials are the latest worry as Russia continues occupation of infamous nuclear reservation

25 MAR 2022 5:20 PM
BY RICHARD STONE

... Although power was restored to Chornobyl on 14 March, Nosovskyi’s worries have multiplied. In the chaos of the Russian advance, he told Science, looters raided a radiation monitoring lab in Chornobyl village—apparently making off with radioactive isotopes used to calibrate instruments and pieces of radioactive waste that could be mixed with conventional explosives to form a “dirty bomb” that would spread contamination over a wide area. ISPNPP has a separate lab in Chornobyl with even more dangerous materials: “powerful sources of gamma and neutron radiation” used to test devices, Nosovskyi says, as well as intensely radioactive samples of material leftover from the Unit Four meltdown. Nosovskyi has lost contact with the lab, he says, so “the fate of these sources is unknown to us.” ...

https://www.science.org/content/article/dirty-bomb-ingredients-go-missing-chornobyl-monitoring-lab
 
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