Russia fought a deadly battle for nuclear Plutonium

to prevent wildfires from engulfing key nuclear sites

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source: nvmp.org/pluto4.htm

Wildfire near Russia's Urals nuclear center extinguished

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

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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