Possibly related to reports that artillery shells hit nuclear waste storage:
A Ukrainian official said Russian shelling hit a radioactive waste repository and an increase in radiation levels was reported. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.
Looks like information war. Russians does not have enough military to win war with Ukraine, so trying to convince Ukrainians, that something terrible happen.
And sure, for this they captured Chernobyl site and cut communications, so now could simulate anything.
At the moment, those attacks have only one real win - mobile networks where overloaded, so become unusable, and nothing more.
Each of the detectors has a detail graph of radiation over time if you click on it - a lot of them show a many-fold increase in radiation in the last few hours.
Particularly concerning are some near the reactor building itself that went to a fairly high reading very quickly (65500 nSv/h in one case, which is likely offscale high) and then stopped reporting at 21:50 local time (it's currently 03:30).
65500 nSv/h is definitely not 'you're going to die right now' radiation levels, but it's definitely getting into the territory of stuff you don't want stand around in for too long. If I've done the math right, I think that's about three times the allowed annual exposure for radiation workers every hour.
Edit: I think I didn't do the math right and am off by 1000x. 65500 nSv/h is like three chest x-rays an hour. Which is still not good, but would take quite a bit longer to get really dangerous.
Safe when it comes to radiation is tricky question. Since potential damage is random you might get cancer from first gamma-ray or you might survive nuclear fallout. (www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daigo_Fukury%C5%AB_Maru)
The map is nSv /h. Lets take dot with 2000 nSv/h. In order to obtain yearly limit you need to hang around for 10 hours. Whereas 65000 area would be around ~20 minutes.
Please bear in mind that this is gross simplification.
So our German news had an expert, explaining that the sarcophagus is not damaged. Just that the heavy rolling tanks in the neighborhood stirred up that much contaminated soil, that the sensors fluctuated for some short time. Just a short local peak.
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And sure, for this they captured Chernobyl site and cut communications, so now could simulate anything.
At the moment, those attacks have only one real win - mobile networks where overloaded, so become unusable, and nothing more.
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Particularly concerning are some near the reactor building itself that went to a fairly high reading very quickly (65500 nSv/h in one case, which is likely offscale high) and then stopped reporting at 21:50 local time (it's currently 03:30).
65500 nSv/h is definitely not 'you're going to die right now' radiation levels, but it's definitely getting into the territory of stuff you don't want stand around in for too long. If I've done the math right, I think that's about three times the allowed annual exposure for radiation workers every hour.
Edit: I think I didn't do the math right and am off by 1000x. 65500 nSv/h is like three chest x-rays an hour. Which is still not good, but would take quite a bit longer to get really dangerous.
65500 = round(typemax(UInt16)/100)*100
and no higher value exists on the map it might actually be worse how much we can't tell though.
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However, in practice yearly 'safe' limit for civilian population is 20 mSv (ref: https://www.stuklex.fi/en/ohje/ST7-2)
The map is nSv /h. Lets take dot with 2000 nSv/h. In order to obtain yearly limit you need to hang around for 10 hours. Whereas 65000 area would be around ~20 minutes.
Please bear in mind that this is gross simplification.
2000 nSv/h * 10 hours = 20 μSv (microsieverts) = 0.02 mSv (millisieverts)