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Posted Wed Aug 11 2010: from New York Times:
Russian Fires Raise Fears of Radioactivity http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1281559002
 As if things in Russia were not looking sufficiently apocalyptic already, with 100-degree temperatures and noxious fumes rolling in from burning peat bogs and forests, there is growing alarm here that fires in regions coated with fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 24 years ago could now be emitting plumes of radioactive smoke. Several fires have been documented in the contaminated areas of western Russia, including three heavily irradiated sites in the Bryansk region, the environmental group Greenpeace Russia said in a statement released Tuesday. Bryansk borders Belarus and Ukraine.
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Where there's radioactive smoke there's radioactive fire!
Russia... has a Greenpeace?

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