Russia hasn't issued a response to the finding. The scientists don't consider the levels of radiation they detected to be an immediate threat to people's health, but Steinhauser said there could be reason to monitor food safety if radiation leaked into the soil and water.
"We are measuring the air 24/7, 365 days a year, and suddenly we came up with something unusual and unexpected." "We were stunned," Georg Steinhauser, one of the study's lead authors, told Business Insider. The discovery marked the first time that a radioactive isotope called ruthenium-106 had been found in the atmosphere since Chernobyl. The likely culprit, the scientists said, was the Mayak nuclear facility. In July 2019, a group of scientists called the "Ring of Five" found evidence that an undisclosed nuclear accident may have taken place less than two years prior. Read more: Haunting photos reveal what nuclear-disaster ghost towns look like years after being abandonedĪ sign warns people not to enter the town of Ozersk near the Mayak nuclear facility. Homes were demolished, and the remains were thrown into pits, then buried. In 2009, residents of the nearby village of Muslyumovo were finally relocated about a mile away to an area dubbed "New Muslyumovo." Much of the old territory was torn down. As late as 1982, a US technical report still referred to the disaster as "alleged."Īround 270,000 people were said to be living on the contaminated land, but within two years of the accident, only 11,000 residents had been evacuated. The explosion exposed at least 22 villages to radiation, and is now considered the world's third-worst nuclear accident, behind Fukushima and Chernobyl.īut details of the incident were sparse until 1992, when government records were declassified after the fall of the Soviet Union. In 1957, a waste tank exploded at the Mayak nuclear facility in Russia, releasing around 2 million curies of radioactive waste into the air. The village of "New Muslyumovo" on November 17, 2010.
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