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Russian wildfires could spread Chernobyl fallout

AUG 11, 2010
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New York Times : The burning forests, grasslands, and peat fields in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine have been sending soot into the atmosphere for days, endangering the health and lives of people in huge areas of those countries. Now, as the New York Times‘s Michael Schwirtz reports, the health threat could be compounded as the fires reach areas that remain contaminated by radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986.
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