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Re:Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea by pizza234 on Saturday June 27, 2020 @06:07PM (#23665059)
I find something in this story puzzling - why were the IGR owners charged? Based on the story as published on Wikipedia, they tried to recover the unit, but they were officially barred to do so.
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Re:Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea by pierrec on Saturday June 27, 2020 @11:54PM (#23666645)
That part of the article is poorly phrased and leaves out some important information on the judgement. There's a link to an issue of Nuclear Law Bulletin that provides better detail.

The biggest charges were ordered to be paid by CNEN (since preventing this kind of accident is part of their job, and they were notified of the potential danger well in advance) and IPASGO (the new owners of the site, who were also aware of the danger and didn't really do anything about it). Finally as you say, two people from IGR (the clinic that moved out) were also charged, because they removed "gates, windows, timberwork and the roof" from the facility while leaving the radioactive device for later - which might also explain why the new owners eventually got pissed and decided to lock them out.

In short the whole thing was a collective train wreck, but the most obvious failure seems to be that CNEN should have taken action immediately after being notified of the danger. Hopefully they're a bit more reactive now.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120318233148/http://www.oecd-n...

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Re:Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea by worewood on Saturday June 27, 2020 @08:48PM (#23665919)
When faced with tragedy some people need to know "who was guilty", so this leads to lots of lawsuits like this.

Lack of education led to the trespassing of property, zero knowledge of radiation to believing it was supernatural, the justice system preventing the cleanup, etc. Means there is no single point of guilt and its hard for people to grasp this.

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