The Chernobyl fires

From an Azerbaidjanian media source

This blogger accused RT of "spouting bullshit" and "disinformation", (and including Seemorerocks in his accusations for posting the video), because an Israeli commentator got his geography wrong and had radiation travelling north to Kiev (sic).  The research he has done indicates that the winds may have taken radiation north over Belorus and the Baltic States.

In the video, @ 1:05 in, one of the ‘experts’, Noam Segal of the Israel Energy Forum, stated: “there are winds carrying the smoke north, towards Kiev”. [Jeez…  Talk about misinformation…  Can someone get this guy a link to my blog so he gets a clue which way is north of the fires… Or a map of where Kiev is… Goodness the SH*T that gets aired these days…]

For some reason he seems to think that RT is lying and claiming that radiation is moving towards Russia, although all the commentators  I've listend to talked about the danger to locals.

It might be worthwhile to remind the gentleman that if it weren't for RT neither he, nor the world-at-large, would know anything approaching the truth about this. The western media has lid consistently, regurgitating the statements of the Junta.

Radioactive ashes to fall in Kiev today

ABC.az,

30 April, 2015

Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Radioactive ashes and dust caused by the forest fire in exclusion zone of Chernobyl nuclear power plant is expected to fall today in Kiev - during the previous days of the fire the radioactive precipitation fell in Belarus.

Today, the wind will change and precipitation will fall on Kiev, whose residents will feel cinder of the fire already by dinner. The ashes of burning trees and dust the wind raises is considered hazardous.

In this regard, the radiation level in Kiev will be measured every half hour. It has not exceeded the natural values yet.

"Speech is now about isotopes of caesium. The ash itself can accumulate and concentrate these isotopes. If the wind changes direction, the radiation level can grow few-fold," said Dmitry Bazyka, the director of the Ukrainian Institute of Radiology.

The fire in the “Chernobyl forest" can harm to grain crop – in case radioactive fallout on crop fields, there is a high threat of contamination of the soil within a radius of 120 km away from the seat of fire.

Back in 2013 Russian television commentator Dmitry Kiselyov (Kiever by birth) promised that in the event of a victory of the Ukrainian Maidan ("the revolution of dignity", as it is referred by its participants) the layer of nuclear ashes in Europe.

Forest Fire in Chernobyl Barely Misses Two Radioactive Sites

Wildfires inside the Chernobyl 19-mile Exclusion Zone started Tuesday and spread across a territory of about 320 hectares

Sputnik News,

2 May, 2015

The fire was stopped 25 kilometers from the station and about 8 kilometers from the site of a radioactive waste disposal facility in Buryakivka, which was marked as the most dangerous nuclear zone by the scientists.

Construction is underway on the Chernobyl New Safe Confinement structure (NSC), an arch that will cover the reactor building once it is moved into position over the Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant, on February 26, 2015

Wildfires inside the Chernobyl 19-mile Exclusion Zone started Tuesday and spread across a territory of about 320 hectares.

“According to the results of the measurements in the area of fire and in its epicenter radiological background has not changed. That was expected, since the density of pollution in the area is not high,” said the engineer, Denis Vishnovskiy, media reports.

He continued saying that even when during a fire there is a rise in the atmosphere of certain radioactive substances, the amount of these compounds was not significant and did not cause a change in the background.

“On the other hand, it has led to an increase in radionuclide content in the air but again only slightly. We have seen a positive tendency, but it does not even reach the level of control.”

The recent fire, which was the worst in the last 20 years, was caused by weather conditions which contributed to the spread it: a dry autumn, snowless winter followed by a dry spring.

"Low humidity accumulated a large amount of dry biomass. In the area the fire is not uncommon, and it was quickly localized. But the speed of the fire spread and the scale of it was unique,” said engineer Denis Vishnevskiy, according to media reports.

In the beginning of the week there had been concerns that wildfires in areas contaminated by the Chernobyl accident could re-disperse the high levels of radioactivity contained in the soil-surface layer and in the plants, potentially posing an increased cancer risk to the inhabitants of those areas.