Wild Fires in the Nuclear Age

The Russian wild fires have apparently spread to areas contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster.

The Emergency Situations Ministry also said that at least six wildfires were spotted and extinguished this week in the Bryansk region - the part of Russia that suffered the most when a reactor in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded during a test in 1986, spewing radioactive clouds over much of the former western Soviet Union and northern Europe.

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