Fires in Western Russia

[SiberianTiger]

Our officials are reporting moderate success in putting off the wildfires still ravaging on Russian territory. However, the situation is still worrying in Moscow, Ryazan territories, in Central Urals, and lately bad news came from Bryansk and other territories where 3900 hectares of woods irradiated during Chernobyl disaster and other nuclear related incidents are reported to set on fire. Right now we have quite clear skies in Moscow, but meteorologists say smog can return at any moment, if winds change.

Russian MoD have lost two important supply depots due to fires and three secret nuclear producing or processing centres were endangered (Sarov in Mordovia, Snezhinsk in Chelyabinsk territory, Mayak plant at the same location).

A cool video of two Italian Canadair CL415 taking water in during a glide along the Volga:

 

[N_Molson]

Yeah, here they said that smoke will probably come back in Moscow before the end of the week, and the temperatures should stay high.

The average of the temperatures in Moscow last month are 7-8°C higher than the normal, this is an extremely uncommon phenomenon. Some regions record temperatures higher from 15°C than usual.

One of the consequences are that the wheat prices will rise all around the world this winter, and since most farming animals are fed with wheat, almost every food products will be affected (milk, eggs, chicken, meat, flour, pasta....). And probably also other grain like rice, corn... since the demand will be higher.

 

[SiberianTiger]

One of the consequences are that the wheat prices will rise all around the world this winter, and since most farming animals are fed with wheat, almost every food products will be affected (milk, eggs, chicken, meat, flour, pasta....). And probably also other grain like rice, corn... since the demand will be higher.

It's mostly a problem of Mediterranean region for which countries Russia was the prime supplier of wheat. The overall world's demand can be covered by USA offer, and, partly, rice suppliers, although prices still will be ballooned up by exchange speculatorts.

 

[N_Molson]

Yeah, that's the other thing they said : there has been a strong speculation on wheat this year, and this has been amplified by the news of droughts in Russia.

But as some criticists said, there's always a reason to raise the prices...

 

[SiberianTiger]

... and you've perhaps already seen the stunt of the week:

Our micromanagement lover PM continues to fulfill his dreams he had when he was a boy. I wonder, whether is he going to take a seat aboard a Soyuz sometimes?

A fresh one on topic:

"Today Prime Minister of Russia Putin has taken a chair of Beriev-200 co-pilot, and successfully extinguished an island of wildfire."

"Meanwhile, Beriev-200 co-pilot Ivanov has taken a chair of Prime Minister of Russia, and successfully fired several guilty ministers, also reestablishing the Federal Forest Guards Service."

 

[N_Molson]

That Beriev-200 is a magnificent hydroplane, I can understand he could'nt resist :lol:

"Meanwhile, Beriev-200 co-pilot Ivanov has taken a chair of Prime Minister of Russia, and successfully fired several guilty ministers, also reestablishing the Federal Forest Guards Service.

:rofl:Full credits to the hydroplanes !!

Seriously, we haven't a single politician in France that would take any bigger risk than crossing a street without 15 bodyguards... The man has some form of courage that I respect.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

JPL: "NASA Video Shows Global Reach of Pollution from Fires".

 

[Artlav]

What it actually looked like looking out of a window over these days, recorded at 54000X:

 

[N_Molson]

It's getting a lot better at the end of the video (last 3 days ?) ! :thumbup:

 

[Artlav]

Yes, so far all is clear here.
End of the video is right now minus a few hours.

 

[N_Molson]

I just heard on the news that the fires have moved east and are now surrounding Ninji-Novgorod (and the Sarov nuclear center is threatened again).

 

[SiberianTiger]

I just heard on the news that the fires have moved east and are now surrounding Ninji-Novgorod (and the Sarov nuclear center is threatened again).

They've been surrounding Ninji-Novgorod all along (although spelling of the city might vary). Perhaps the reporters didn't trace previous reports closely.

 

[N_Molson]

That's quite an optimistic way to see the things. I'd rather bet they go where there is trouble, Moscow under a bright sun isn't interesting anymore for them

 

[Enjo]

Atom warning.
At 10.08.2010 the fire was 80 km from an atom storage town, Majak. Giessene Anzeige yesterday told that the fire was 30 km from Majak.

http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/2010/0...oht-droht-jetzt-eine-atomare-katastrophe.html

Posted already?

... and you've perhaps already seen the stunt of the week:

Wow, what a hero ...

 

[tblaxland]

Atom warning.
At 10.08.2010 the fire was 80 km from an atom storage town, Majak.

Perhaps its a language thing - what's an "atom warning" or "atom storage town"? I personally store plenty of atoms, yet I am only mildly dangerous...

 

[orb]

Perhaps its a language thing - what's an "atom warning" or "atom storage town"?

Edit: About wrong town I was thinking. Explanation below.

 

[Lucy]

I'd thank you for that post but I've distributed all my thanks for the day. I figured "Atom Town" had to be something to do with nuclear somethings. Interesting name for a town.

 

[orb]

I'd thank you for that post but I've distributed all my thanks for the day. I figured "Atom Town" had to be something to do with nuclear somethings. Interesting name for a town.

But that was not the town that was meant. I thought it's about Zheleznogorsk, but then I read that it's about [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayak]Mayak[/ame].

 

[SiberianTiger]

I'd thank you for that post but I've distributed all my thanks for the day. I figured "Atom Town" had to be something to do with nuclear somethings. Interesting name for a town.

It's not a name, but a kind of classification. The town itself is named Ozyorsk (meaning "Lake town") and it's a residential territory mostly for personnel of [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayak"]Mayak[/ame] nuclear complex. The latter is a primary Plutonium production centre for Russian nuclear weapons (on the bright side, some of the present day US deep space probes also run on fission material produced there).

By the way, it was a mission target for Gary Powers' flight in 1960.

It's most infamous for [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster"]Kyshtym Disasaster[/ame] that happened on 29 September 1957. After a cooling system failure, an explosion happened. The fallout of the cloud resulted in a long-term contamination of an area of more than 800 square kilometers, primarily with caesium-137 and strontium-90. This area is usually referred to as the East-Ural Radioactive Trace (EURT).

Also, from 1949 to 1956 the Mayak complex dumped estimated at 76 million cubic meters of radioactive waste water into the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techa_River"]Techa River[/ame], making its waters unusable and leaving its shores contaminated.

The main concern here is how much the wildfires will affect the contaminated areas, because all the crap may once again lift up in the air and drift further.

It's not posing a risk to the facility itself, I'd assume.