❗️Traces of radioactive #Caesium_137 were detected along #Norway’s border with #Russia - The #Barents_Observer

#Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (#DSA) says the amount of Caesium discovered in the air filters is "very low." #Bredo_Møller with #DSA’s Emergency Preparedness unit at #Svanhovd is not worried.

"The levels are clearly higher than normal, but pose no risk to humans or the environment," #Møller said.

The origin of #Caesium_137 is still unknown, according to the #DSA.

Several nuclear-powered icebreakers and submarines are operating in the #Barents_Sea. However, #Norwegian experts consider it unlikely that the release came from an operating reactor at sea. Another possibility, in their opinion, that it may be linked to the development or testing of the #Russian nuclear-powered missile #Burevestnik, with the launch site located on the #Novaya_Zemlya archipelago, where the #USSR conducted nuclear tests until 1990.
Traces of radioactive Cesium-137 measured along Norway’s border with Russia

The radioactivity was measured in filters at Viksjøfjell and Svanhovd in the second week of September, but the origin is still unknown.

The Independent Barents Observer