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Post by clone on Aug 8, 2010 14:56:29 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Aug 8, 2010 15:00:40 GMT -8
Moscow opens anti-smog centers as fires burn August 8, 2010 - 10:57am MOSCOW (AP) - Moscow authorities on Sunday opened more than 120 "anti-smog" centers to give residents an escape from record-breaking heat and choking smoke from wildfires blazing around the capital. Dozens of flights were grounded at local airports. Overwhelmed Muscovites can "get their breath back" in 123 air-conditioned rooms that have opened to the public in government buildings and hospitals, city official Vladimir Petrosyan said. Most apartments in Moscow lack air conditioning. Moscow emergency officials said they registered 49 wildfires around Moscow on Sunday, including 14 peat bog fires. About 830 separate forest blazes were burning nationwide early Sunday _ slightly less than earlier this week _ as the country endured its most intense heat wave in 130 years. www.wtop.com/?nid=105&sid=2015397
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Post by clone on Aug 8, 2010 15:07:05 GMT -8
Some 250 miles (400 kilometers) to the east, about 2,000 army troops and emergency personnel were fighting back flames that surrounded Russia's top nuclear research facility in Sarov. The situation there was "tense but not critical," Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov said after new robotic firefighting equipment was sent to the scene overnight. "There is no threat to the Federal Nuclear Center, and there is no reason for worry," Bulgakov was quoted by the ITAR-Tass news agency as saying. The country's nuclear chief, Sergei Kiriyenko, was quoted as saying that all explosive and radioactive material had been moved off site as a precaution. The top-secret facility is Russia's main nuclear research center and the birthplace of Soviet nuclear weapons. Lawyers for the late Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko, who died in London in 2006 after drinking tea laced with polonium, claimed the radioactive isotope that killed him was produced at Sarov. Another risk of radioactive contamination stems from the forest fires sweeping through areas polluted by the 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, Russian environmentalists said. The fires have the potential to send radioactive dust into the air, Nikolai Shmatkov of the World Wildlife Fund's Russia office and Vladimir Chuprov of Russian Greenpeace told The Associated Press. www.komonews.com/news/national/99942554.html
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Post by moabiter on Aug 12, 2010 15:02:04 GMT -8
Moscow 'hiding heatstroke cases' after death rate jumps 12 August 2010 Last updated at 17:45 ET Doctors in Moscow are being told not to diagnose heatstroke as a cause of death after a jump in the mortality rate during the heatwave, Russia media say. The emergencies ministry reported that as of Thursday morning 66 major fires continued to burn across Russia, 40 of them in peat bogs, which are notoriously difficult to extinguish. While wildfires continued to burn up to 100km (60 miles) away from the site of the Chernobyl nuclear accident in Ukraine, experts said there was little danger of serious radioactive contamination. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said the fires had destroyed a quarter of the agricultural land where cereals are grown... "We have indeed been instructed to stop diagnosing heatstroke," a doctor told Interfax news agency. "We were told that the figures for heatstroke in Moscow had gone off the scale." Another doctor explained to the agency that there had been no formal ban: "Everything is done by word of mouth. "Even though the heatwave is now abating, the informal instruction is in force until 1 September." Moscow's healthcare department was not available for comment, Interfax added. Russia's LifeNews website, which published the photo of the note, was similarly unable to get a response. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10959046
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Post by moabiter on Aug 27, 2010 22:35:56 GMT -8
EVACUATE NOW!: This is Not a Drill August 15, 2010 Two US Air Force C130s just flew into Moscow. Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab, or one of the seven other nuclear weapons labs in the US, are more than likely involved. Ask yourself this. What on earth could have scared the Russian nuke forces enough to call in their old hated Cold War foe – the US Air Force – for help? There is a simple way to let the people of the world know what is going on with airborne Chernobyl and Mayak data. We paid for all the data, anyway, whether Russian, American or European Union Data. Free the Data. Release it to the InterNet all over the world and let people decide for themselves which country is safe enough for their families to live in. If you are planning a trip to Europe or Russia – don't go. If you are already there – leave immediately. If you have family or friends there – get them out if you can. This is not a drill. It is the real deal. Thousands of forest fires are burning in Russia around old H-Bomb factories.www.veteranstoday.com/2010/08/15/evacuate-now-this-is-not-a-drill/
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Post by moabiter on Sept 8, 2010 9:06:26 GMT -8
chernobyl.info - The international communications platform on the longterm consequences of the Chernobyl disaster 13.04.2006. Are there many two-headed calves in Chernobyl zone? Polesski radiation- ecological reserve was created in 1988 in a part of the territories contaminated as a result of the Chernobyl disaster. The project aimed at overseeing the wildlife in conditions of the high radiation level, and forest planting as it prevents emission of radioactive particles with dust. Continuation of journey notes of "Belarusian News" special correspondent Beginning: 1. Homemade vodka helps to forget about radiation 2. Bragin waits for Lukashenko Vassily SEMASHKO (photographs are taken by the author) www.chernobyl.info/index.php?userhash=703834&navID=584&lID=2
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Post by moabiter on Sept 8, 2010 9:11:22 GMT -8
Russia forced to move nuclear materials as smog descends from wildfires 7/08/2010 An eerie blanket of grey smog chokes Red Square after wildfires broke out in forests and peat bogs outside Moscow. Russia yesterday began removing nuclear materials from areas engulfed by its worst-ever fires and the public were urged to stay indoors. Urgent action was under way to stop the fires spreading to areas of western Russia contaminated by radioactivity from the Chernobyl atomic power station blast of 1986. www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/08/07/dread-square-115875-22470648/
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Post by nervosa on Jan 18, 2011 23:22:21 GMT -8
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