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Avril 2007 / Sunday Telegraph

’How we made the Chernobyl rain’



’How we made the Chernobyl rain’

By Richard Gray, Sunday Telegraph

Last Updated : 11:55pm BST 21/04/2007

Russian military pilots have described how they created rain clouds to protect Moscow from radioactive fallout after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.

Major Aleksei Grushin repeatedly took to the skies above Chernobyl and Belarus and used artillery shells filled with silver iodide to make rain clouds that would "wash out" radioactive particles drifting towards densely populated (...)