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Wildfires in Chornobyl-affected areas may raise radioactive clouds

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Aug. 6, 2010, 4:21 p.m. | Russia and former Soviet Union — by Interfax-Ukraine
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Moscow, August 6 (Interfax) - A senior officer at one of the world's largest environmental groups on Friday confirmed fears expressed by Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry on Thursday, August 5, that wildfires in Bryansk and other Russian areas affected by the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear disaster may raise radioactive fallout lying in the soil into the air. "There are radioactive substances in the upper layer of the soil in Bryansk forests and in forest areas in the regions of Lipetsk, Kaluga and Tula. They are remainders of the radioactive cloud that was coming from the accident zone at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986," Nikolai Shmatkov, a forestry projects coordinator at the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), told a news conference.

"The government should pay a great deal of attention to the protection not only of military bases and science towns but of those places as well," he said.

On Thursday, August 5, Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that more intensive fire prevention work was under way in Russian regions affected by Chornobyl.
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Anonymous Aug. 6, 2010, 5:10 p.m.    

"And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood (Chornobyl): and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter." (Revelation 8:10, 11 of New Testament in the Bible).

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Anonymous Aug. 6, 2010, 8:44 p.m.    

You can always make an abstract thing mean what you want it to mean, can't you?

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Anonymous Aug. 6, 2010, 9:17 p.m.    

It's called meditation, not Gospel.

I gave no commentary.

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Anonymous Aug. 6, 2010, 8:04 p.m.    

are months that i repeat why you follow russian nuclear technology that is unsafety and obsolete,do you want to make others cernobil? and now you remeber the cernobil danger,but always too late,i told you if you want to continue new nuclear development,ok contact italy,or france or america,where you find the new and safety technology,but janucovich prefere to follow with russia so remember cernobil is still there and is like a devil always ready to kill other persons

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Anonymous Aug. 6, 2010, 10:33 p.m.    

Put down the vodka,the area is safe for tourists,hunters,farmers, young couples looking for cheap place to raise a family.I and wife have been eating the wild game from there for years if our children hadn't been born stillborn we would take them with us on our camping trips there.

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Anonymous Aug. 7, 2010, 1:29 a.m.    

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Anonymous Aug. 6, 2010, 10:38 p.m.    

Backward damn slavs don't understand fire will get rid of the radioactive material,no wonder they are so poor.

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Anonymous Aug. 6, 2010, 11:38 p.m.    

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Anonymous Aug. 6, 2010, 11:36 p.m.    

Surprise: lots more death in Moscow

Today, the Russian press is reporting a sharp uptick in deaths during what has been a horrendous heat wave, with temperatures constantly breaking the 130-year records that had just been set the day before.

Earlier today, Interfax reported that deaths had increased by 29.7% in July, which, let’s recall, was before the smoke arrived.

Morgues are swamped, which, with the heat, is not a pleasant scenario. “It’s just horrible here!” one hospital employee told LifeNews.ru. “Our refrigerators [in the morgue] are filled beyond capacity! Yesterday, we had 17 corpses, the day before 17, even though normally we see two or three. That’s 5-6 times more! The corpses are at least in refrigerators, and not only do we not have air conditioning, we don’t even have a damn fan!”

And, of course, these are all leaks. Hospital employees have been forbidden from talking to the press.

https://themoscowdiaries.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/surprise-lots-more-death-in-moscow/

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Anonymous Aug. 7, 2010, 5:08 a.m.    

A QUARTER CENTURY AFTER CHERNOBYL

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Radioactive Boar on the Rise in Germany As Germany's wild boar population has

skyrocketed in recent years, so too has the number of animals contaminated by

radioactivity left over from the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown. Government payments

compensating hunters for lost income due to radioactive boar have quadrupled

since 2007.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,709345,00.html#ref=nlint

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Anonymous Aug. 7, 2010, 4:25 p.m.    

Why not donate the meat to the homeless i am sure they would value a good meal.We have become a heartless society more worried about some damn pig than our fellow humans.

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