Russian Fires Approach Nuclear Plants: The area of the fires in Russia has been brought under control, but there are much bigger problems looming. The fires have approached the Red Forest, an area that suffered the worst of Chernobyl's fallout in 1986, with the soil still heavily contaminated by cesium-137 and strontium-90.
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