{"id":131,"date":"2009-01-21T07:35:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T14:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=131"},"modified":"2009-01-21T07:35:52","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T14:35:52","slug":"russia-says-old-nuclear-satellite-poses-no-threat-international-herald-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Russia says old nuclear satellite poses no threat &#8211; International Herald Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;MOSCOW: Russia&#8217;s military said Wednesday that an old Soviet-built nuclear-powered satellite has spewed fragments in orbit, but insisted they do not threaten the international space station or people on Earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2009\/01\/21\/europe\/EU-Russia-Nuclear-Satellite.php\">Russia says old nuclear satellite poses no threat &#8211; International Herald Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another example of the underplayed and\u00a0 extremely dangerous overlap between military applications and environmental risk.<\/p>\n<p>Sloppy reporting follows:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 1978, the Soviet Cosmos-954 nuclear-powered satellite scattered radioactive debris over a lightly populated area of Northern Canada on its fiery re-entry, but caused no\u00a0injuries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cancer is common everywhere, so of course it is possible that this radioactive debris has caused injuries, either in Nothern Canada or beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;MOSCOW: Russia&#8217;s military said Wednesday that an old Soviet-built nuclear-powered satellite has spewed fragments in orbit, but insisted they do not threaten the international space station or people on Earth.&#8221; via Russia says old nuclear satellite poses no threat &#8211; International Herald Tribune. Another example of the underplayed and\u00a0 extremely dangerous overlap between military applications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}