Nature. Once her wrath gets going, it’s tough to calm her down.

That Fire in Russia
By now you are aware that Russia is being consumed by conflagration. The Foreign Policy website has photos on this matter.

Did you also know that the fires are raising fears of radioactivity?

The danger comes from radioactive residue still coating large areas of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, years after the explosion of Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986, in what was then the Soviet republic of Ukraine.

“The Chernobyl catastrophe occurred and these areas were littered with radioactive fallout,” said Aleksandr Nikitin, director of the St. Petersburg office of Bellona, an international environmental group.

“This contaminated the trees and the grass.” he said.

“Now, when there is a fire and when all of this burns, all of this radioactivity, together with smoke, comes out and spreads to other territories, including populated areas where people breathe it in as smog.”

In Hietaniemi beach Helsinki

via you tube

Higher res version here.

As a Freakangel on Whitechapel noted, “it’s the goddamned Nothing!”

Reference for those who forgot The Nothing under the cut.
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