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Smoltering Peat Fire by Greenpeace Russia
Peat Fire in the Bryansk Region: News – May 4, 2015
Greenpeace staff again found dozens of areas, including in the area of ​​Chernobyl [fallout] trace. None of the regional authorities knew about them.
http://www.greenpeace.org/russia/ru/news/2015/04-5-bryansk/

[Note: A GBq is one billion becquerels (i.e. radioactive emissions per second; a kilogram (kg) is 2.2 pounds; 6 million hectares is 60,000 square kilometers; 23,166 square miles; 14.8 million acres.]

Below is the Abstract of an article about fires-fire prevention in the areas most severely contaminated by Chernobyl: 6 million hectares (14.8 million acres). The UK, Norway, Sweden and Finland were also highly contaminated from Chernobyl and remain so (1,000 plus Bq/kg of Cs in Reindeer and sheep). Most of Europe was very contaminated in a splotchy way and remains so (sometimes more than the 600 Bq/kg allowed in German Wild Boar). It was largely the luck of…