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Unofficially, they speak about plague in Russia, but first of all, about sharply elevated radioactive background in the city, caused by destruction of atomic bombs in fires at nuclear weapons arsenals outside Moscow. According to unofficial information, warehouses of chemical and bacteriological weapons were also burnt down.
Originally posted by getagripplease
The fact this fire is barely being reported on at all makes me suspicious. If these(South America and Africa included) fires are as massive as people are claiming, is it possible they could cause a mini nuclear winter?
Originally posted by getagripplease
The fact this fire is barely being reported on at all makes me suspicious. If these(South America and Africa included) fires are as massive as people are claiming, is it possible they could cause a mini nuclear winter?
Originally posted by this_is_who_we_are
If you go to maps.geog.umd.edu... you can download a 24hr or 48 hr KML map layer of fires/hotspots for Google Earth. It doesn't look too good...
[edit on 8/9/2010 by this_is_who_we_are]
The Defense Ministry initially denied the fire before confirming it Tuesday.
The base was not identified, but the town of Shchurov hosts a supply base that provides ammunition and equipment for both the Navy and the Air Force and stores more than 65,000 tons of various equipment, the local weekly Ugol Zreniya reported in March.
Meanwhile, wildfires burned dangerously close to Sarov, a town in the Nizhny Novgorod region that acts as the country's nuclear research center and is off-limits to foreigners, prompting Rosatom chief Sergei Kiriyenko to fly to the town to personally oversee firefighting efforts.
Firefighters scored a small victory in their battle against wildfires Sunday when they finally put out blazes that had threatened the Sarov nuclear research center.
But wildfires continued to ravage other areas, and the opposition accused authorities of being in denial.
Soldiers dug an eight-kilometer canal to keep fires away from Sarov, ringed by forest in the Nizhny Novgorod region, before the fires were finally extinguished Sunday, emergency officials said.
On Friday, firefighters had to extinguish two blazes inside the perimeter of the city.
Sarov is a closed town whose nuclear site produced the first Soviet atomic bomb in 1949 and remains the main nuclear design and production facility in Russia.
Originally posted by catwhoknows
OK, I am now certifiably insane.
My post here was removed, and when I complained it was reinstated.
Is it me who is mad?
Or is it people playing silly games?
Only after radiation levels set off alarms at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden[42] did the Soviet Union admit that an accident had occurred, but authorities attempted to conceal the scale of the disaster. To evacuate the city of Pripyat, the following warning message was reported on local radio: "An accident has occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. One of the atomic reactors has been damaged. Aid will be given to those affected and a committee of government inquiry has been set up." This message gave the false impression that any damage or radiation was localized.