Reply to "Chernobyl radiation levels skyrocket as forest fires surround power plant"

JH1961Post Master

This has always been 'the worst fear' of people knowledgeable about Chernobyl. Everything for miles, in all directions, around the power plant is radioactive: the trees, plants, dirt, insects, animals (deer herds, wild pigs, birds, fish)...you name it. It's ALL radioactive.

A forest fire could send TONS of highly radioactive ash into the atmosphere where it would spiral in a counterclockwise direction, covering first eastern Europe, then Scandinavia and Great Britain before plunging south towards France and the Mediterranean region.

4/9/2012:01 AM

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