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Anonymous ID: 3f2d3b July 28, 2018, 2:30 p.m. No.2329032   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9058 >>9077 >>9136

Another lake disappears. This time in Russia

 

An entire lake has disappeared on the archipelago of Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean in northern Russia as reported by researchers from the project “The Open Ocean: Archipelagos of the Arctic”. The expedition was sent in this remote area in an attempt to survey Lake Usacheva, but stumbled upon an empty reservoir with its bottom scarred by cracks and fissures.

 

“We are not talking here about a small lake near the sea shore, which, for example, can break through the channel and drain into the sea, but about the large and deep lake Usacheva, that is at least 3 kilometers long, and a few kilometers distant from the sea. […] The guys walked on the dried bottom of the lake for more than one and a half kilometers, and as shown in the photographs, it’s a continuous clay desert, covered with a grid of cracks and fissures from erosion […] ”

 

According to the State Water Register, the now empty reservoir is located a few kilometers from the Shokalskyi Glacier – the largest on Novaya Zemlya. And, judging by the information of the national park “Russian Arctic”, the staff of this specially protected natural area visited the area recently. And the lake was still there!

 

Such strange discoveries are totally baffling even for scientists. A similar event occurred in glacier lake in Iceland. The reservoir disappeared in a crack and reappeared several years later.

 

https://strangesounds.org/2018/07/arctic-lake-mysteriously-disappears-northern-russia-novaya-zemlya.html

Anonymous ID: 3f2d3b July 28, 2018, 2:43 p.m. No.2329254   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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The commission learned of the leak on July 12, and still does not have results on recent groundwater tests, which would show whether pollution had washed into the area’s water supply.

 

State Department of Health and Environmental Control officials said that the leak does not pose a threat to local water supplies, but activists are concerned that Congaree National Park, a vast wetland just several miles from the plant, may be contaminated.

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© Oleg Popov Notes of nuclear? Fukushima radioactivity found in California wine

 

“It’s a pretty big concern if you have an unknown quantity of material containing uranium leaching into the groundwater," local anti-nuclear activist Tom Clements told The State. Exposure to uranium can cause kidney failure and can increase a person’s risk of cancer.

 

The Westinghouse fuel factory turns uranium into several types of fuel for nuclear reactors. Fuel manufactured at the South Carolina facility is used in nuclear reactors in the US, Europe, and Asia.

 

Despite boasting that “no company is more focused on nuclear fuel reliability,” Westinghouse’s South Carolina factory has seen its share of safety foul-ups in the past. The plant was shut down two years ago following a uranium build-up in an air pollution control device.

 

Last year, a hose malfunction sprayed a worker with a toxic solution, sending him fleeing to an emergency decontamination shower. In both cases, the company resolved to hire new management and overhaul its safety procedures.

 

The factory has been operational for almost five decades, and is one of a handful of nuclear fuel factories in the US. At present, its federal operating license is up for renewal.

 

The plant is still operating, but the section where the hole was discovered has been shut down until repairs can be completed.

 

https://www.rt.com/usa/434236-uranium-leak-south-carolina/