[7mmag6]

I thought you guys might like this, as part of my job I sometimes go to Arzamas in the former soviet union, its the soviet version of the Los Alamos national lab, this was in the english version of the local paper
Radioactive dogs in Siberia
Another case of radioactivity spread by the animals is registered at the Siberian Chemical Combine in Seversk, Siberian Environmental Agency reported.
On April 9th, 2003, a pack of wild dogs ran away from the Combines area # 18a where liquid radioactive waste is pumped underground. The guards of the Combine were sent to shoot the dogs. On April 10th, the witnesses say that the military personnel on the special cars equipped with decontamination equipment were patrolling the area near site 18a. Uncontrolled spread of radioactive materials by animals from site #15 has been observed before; the site #15 includes: area # 18a for underground pumping of low- and middle level liquid radwaste, area 18 for underground pumping of low level liquid radwaste, radiochemical plant, and open pools with various level radwaste. The majority of cases of radioactivity spread by animals are connected with elks, whose migration route goes right trough site #15. Elk do not understand the purpose of the barbed wire and often force their way through it injuring themselves. Once an elk took a bath in one of the radioactive pools at site no.15 and then left. The group of Combines dosimetrists traced the animal for several kilometers collecting contaminated soil after it. The most famous elk storyis about the construction workers who killed an elk right at site no.15 and ate its meat. The last incident with elk was in 2000, when thanks to the triggered alarm the elk was caught before they reached the contaminated territory. In spring and autumn migrant water birds transfer radioactivity from open pools of site# 15, water reservoir 1 and river Romashka for many kilometers around. Specially hired hunters shoot the innocent birds on their migration route on the way to the north and back. But they cannot shoot all of them. In autumn 1998, members of the Tomsk Environmental Student Inspection bagged only one duck among several hundreds resting on lake Chernoe out of site #15 territory. It turned out to be filled with cesium-137 and strong beta emitting radionuclide (presumably strontium-90). The meat of a duck caught in Vilensk hunting society (within the Combines monitoring area) contained Cs-137 with specific activity of 300,000 Bq/kg.
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[Klaus]

What the hell do they have OPEN POOLS of radioactive waste for. And they blame ANIMALS for spreading it???????? I bet they wish they could have voted for Gore, too.