Sitting in Kiev, waiting for the cloud

So here we are, at 40 degree Celsius, without a hint of wind. TV news say everything and the opposite of everything. I'm starting to get a clue at what Chernobyl might have been like, for the locals.
Yesterday night I was tempted to destroy my own TV, when a politician from the Timoshenko fraction with a triumphant look shouted out that "the disaster comes from choosing you as ministers". He was smiling his ass out, as if possible people's death was a clear victory. I'll never watch Kanal 5 anymore, I mean, there are moral boundaries that simply cannot be crossed.

I'm not saying that the current government is made of saints, actually right the opposite. Yet when toxic clouds fly in the sky you'd expect people to concentrate on public interest first, and not on their salary as a Rep, at least not in public. I'm disgusted, to say the very least.
Some say your eyes become dry, when you are exposed to the cloud. Well, mine are, since yesterday, but how can I tell whether it's just an effect of the hot weather or a hint of the cloud? No way to know. So I try not to think about it and simply keep working, as anybody else. Maybe it's just a psychological effect, after all.

I'm not much worried about phosphor, anyway. Even if it gets here it will have lost most of its concentration, and we get lots of phosphates from our food anyway. Maybe it will damage my skin a bit, but I don't expect major problems to arise.
My worry is nuclear in nature. There is an ongoing project in order to build a deposit for all European nuclear rubbish in Chernobyl. That stuff gets moved by train, too. It will be carried by the very same rails on which this just happened. Our next cloud may be hard to wash away.
The project was first proposed by Jushchenko, and Janukovich was a fierce opponent to it, for ecological reasons. Once Janukovich got to be the Prime Minister he signed the contracts for the project himself. Nobody will stop it, the only thing being decided is who will cash the bribe money for the project.
So no, it's not phosphor that worries me.

BTW, if you expect the Ukrainian media (and politicians) to be absolutely silent about this risk... you're bloody right :) And the fact that it could be a major risk for all Europe as such doesn't make the western media even a bit interested, either.
So hope and prey you won't hear about it once it's already front page news, because of the next cloud...
Wanna laugh? In the same hours when the phosphor train caught fire, someone smashed the signpost of the Chernobyl monument in Kiev, apparently in a small car accident. No more than a coincidence, obviously. Yet when you are ruled by politicians who are suited for the Middle Age (at the best) you start to look for comets in the sky :) I suppose it's natural :)