Radioactive fallout from nuclear meltdowns and weapons testing is nestled in glaciers across the world, scientists said Wednesday, warning of a potentially hazardous time bomb as rising temperatures melt the icy residue.
For the first time, an international team of scientists has studied the presence of nuclear fallout in ice surface sediments on glaciers across the Arctic, Iceland the Alps, Caucasus mountains, British Columbia and Antarctica. It found manmade radioactive material at all 17 survey sites, often at concentrations at least 10 times higher than levels elsewhere. "They are some of the highest levels you see in the environment outside nuclear exclusion zones," said Caroline Clason, a lecturer in Physical Geography at the University of Plymouth. When radioactive material is released into the atmosphere, it falls to earth as acid rain, some of which is absorbed by plants and soil. But when it falls as snow and settles in the ice, it forms heavier sediment which collects in glaciers, concentrating the levels of nuclear residue. The Chernobyl disaster of 1986—by far the most devastating nuclear accident to date—released vast clouds of radioactive material including Caesium into the atmosphere, causing widespread contamination and acid rain across northern Europe for weeks afterwards. "Radioactive particles are very light so when they are taken up into the atmosphere they can be transported a very long way," she told AFP. "When it falls as rain, like after Chernobyl, it washes away and it's sort of a one-off event. But as snow, it stays in the ice for decades and as it melts in response to the climate it's then washed downstream." The environmental impact of this has been shown in recent years, as wild boar meat in Sweden was found to contain more than 10 times the safe levels of Caesium.
What a scare tactic bullshit story to enforce more global warming prevention measures down peoples throats.
5G is going to be a lot worse then a little 'manmade' radioactive leftovers escaping from the ice.
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Subject: Re: Siren sounds on nuclear fallout embedded in melting glaciers Wed Apr 17, 2019 6:17 pm
I have nothing to add about 5G.
Siren sounds on nuclear fallout embedded in melting glaciers
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Subject: Siren sounds on nuclear fallout embedded in melting glaciers 
What a scare tactic bullshit story to enforce more global warming prevention measures down peoples throats. 
