{"id":95246,"date":"2019-08-25T02:22:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T09:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/russian-health-officials-blame-fukushima-crabs-for-cesium-137-exposure-after-mysterious-accident"},"modified":"2019-08-25T02:22:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T09:22:47","slug":"russian-health-officials-blame-fukushima-crabs-for-cesium-137-exposure-after-mysterious-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/russian-health-officials-blame-fukushima-crabs-for-cesium-137-exposure-after-mysterious-accident","title":{"rendered":"Russian Health Officials Blame \u2018Fukushima Crabs\u2019 for Cesium-137 Exposure After Mysterious Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russian-health-officials-blame-fukushima-crabs-for-cesium-137-exposure-after-mysterious-accident2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A doctor who treated survivors of a mysterious nuclear accident in Russia was told that the radioactive isotope cesium-137 must have made its way into their body due to \u201cFukushima crabs,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/08\/24\/europe\/russia-fukushima-crabs-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The August 8 incident at the Nyonoksa testing range on a platform in the White Sea has not yet been fully explained, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/russia-covering-up-nuclear-accident-at-nyonoksa-2019-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at least seven individuals<\/a> have been reported dead after what nuclear agency Rosatom <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/russian-nuclear-agency-rosatom-confirms-radiation-leak-1837129791\" rel=\"nofollow\">described as an accident<\/a> involving an \u201cisotope power source for a liquid-fuelled rocket engine.\u201d It later emerged that the incident was serious enough that Russian officials in Arkhangelsk wavered over the issue of whether to <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/mysterious-russian-nuclear-explosion-upgraded-from-weir-1837218319\" rel=\"nofollow\">issue evacuation orders<\/a> for nearby towns. While several of the personnel deaths were due to an onsite explosion, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/europe\/two-victims-of-mysterious-russian-missile-blast-died-of-radiation-sickness-report-says\/2019\/08\/21\/333ade04-c41e-11e9-8bf7-cde2d9e09055_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post reported<\/a> this week (citing the Novaya Gazeta newspaper) that two individuals had died of radiation exposure before they could be taken to Moscow for treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A doctor who treated survivors of a mysterious nuclear accident in Russia was told that the radioactive isotope cesium-137 must have made its way into their body due to \u201cFukushima crabs,\u201d according to CNN. The August 8 incident at the Nyonoksa testing range on a platform in the White Sea has not yet been fully [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,873,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-nuclear-energy","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}