Soon after Russian troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022, sensors in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone reported radiation spikes. A researcher now believes he’s found evidence the data was manipulated.
  • @LemmynySnicketEnglish
    27•1 year ago

    Didn’t the Russians dig trenches there and die? Wouldn’t that raise the radiation?

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      13•1 year ago

      According to the article, not in the pattern that this researcher found. I guess if it had been kicked-up dust, or emissions from a particular trench, you’d expect sensors near the source to register high levels of radiation and sensors near one another to register similar readings, but the actual readings didn’t make this kind of sense.

  • @[email protected]English
    0•1 year ago

    Sooo… who benefits from the manipulation of the data? Ukraine because it makes Russia look bad? Is it that simple?

    • @[email protected]
      6•1 year ago

      The argument seems to be that the staff let the soldiers think there was radiation so they didn’t go around breaking shit and would want to leave.

    • Kbin_space_program
      6•1 year ago

      The staff did a bit of play to make the soldiers worried about digging too much.

      But hacking the sensors? Russia knew the radiation spikes were false, had the motive, and that they took the servers with them when they left also leaves them looking particularly guilty.