Radioactive Climate Change

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From Scientific American:   "For almost three decades the forests around the [Chernobyl] nuclear power plant have been absorbing contamination left from the 1986 reactor explosion. Now climate change and lack of management present a troubling predicament: If these forests burn, strontium 90, cesium 137, plutonium 238 and other radioactive elements would be released ...  Combined with changes in climate, the 600 acres of dry pines are a prescription for wildfire. "