Check the winds! Chernobyl is only 100km from Kiev, but as the winds were blowing in the opposite direction the Ukraine's capital was unscathed and the majorit

Check the winds! Chernobyl is only 100km from Kiev, but as the winds were blowing in the opposite direction the Ukraine's capital was unscathed and the majority of fallout was over Belarus. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/12/japan-quake-wind-idAFL3E7EC0A620110312 http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/12/japan-quake-wind-i...