Russia diverted Chernobyl rain, says scientist
August 8, 2004
Dr Alan Flowers, who was given 48 hours to leave the country, said 4,000 square miles of Belarus were sacrificed to ensure the safety of Moscow. He claims cold war technology was used to "seed" clouds and produce contaminated rain so the radiation would not spread as far as the Russian capital.
"After the blast there was the risk that radioactive material blown into the atmosphere could have reached Moscow," said Flowers, a scientist at Kingston University, London, who has carried out research in the contaminated areas for 12 years. "Sowing rain made sure that didn[base ']t happen."
It was at 1:234am on April 26, 1986, that reactor 4 exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. The blast killed 31 people but the initial death toll was low compared with the millions endangered by exposure to high levels of radiation.
Far from their buried husbands, Chernobyl widows still cope with loss
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Twenty-nine firefighters (11), rescuers and nuclear plant workers died in the two months following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which happened 20 years ago Wednesday. Although the Ukrainians could now be reburied in their native soil, the widows are resolved to leave them lying together alongside their dead co-workers from other parts of the former Soviet Union.
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