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Atomic Wildfires Are Russia’s Looming Compound Disaster

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Massive wildfires are encroaching on Russia’s defunct nuclear sites, threatening to reignite radioactive compounds that have been dormant since the Cold War. But the country’s understaffed and underexperienced fire service is faltering in the wake of the Ukraine war, leaving populations across the vast interior vulnerable to a compound disaster. The post Atomic Wildfires Are Russia’s Looming Compound Disaster appeared first on New Lines Magazine .