Burning Russia Wildfires may blow Plutonium dust to Europe
Post date: Aug 10, 2010 8:03:58 PM
Russia fought a deadly battle for nuclear Plutonium
to prevent wildfires from engulfing key nuclear sites
A medical look at plutonium.
Plutonium dust may cause lung and bone cancer.
10 to 50 years later
source: nvmp.org/pluto4.htm
The Snezhinsk nuclear research center was established in 1955. It specializes in the technical aspects of producing and testing nuclear weapons and conducts nuclear research.
Two members of the Russian armed forces were killed Monday fighting wildfires around Russia's main nuclear research centre in Sarov, a town in the Nizhny Novgorod region still closed to foreigners as in Soviet times.
source: news.yahoo.com
comment:
Russia original thought it is a winner in Global
warming, Siberia ice to melt for green....
Now Climate change heat waves burn
the radioactive forests, smoke could reach Berlin
Earlier, emergency measures against the spread
of wildfires were stepped up in the town of Ozersk in the Chelyabinsk (GOOGLE MAP) region where one of Russia's largest nuclear-waste plants, Mayak, is based.
Nuclear Waste MayakThe Mayak plant, which makes tritium and radioisotopes from decommissioned weapons and waste from nuclear reactors, is about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the Snezhinsk nuclear research center.
source:en.rian.ru
Chelyabinsk (GOOGLE MAP) Mayak
Nuclear Plutonium and Waste sites