Radiation levels in the Chernobyl exclusion zone spiked 17 times over the normal background reading on Sunday, the head of Ukraine’s ecological watchdog says, as forest fires blazed some 20 kilometers into the Chernobyl disaster area.
A geiger counter measures a radiation level at a site of fire burning in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, outside the village of Rahivka, Ukraine on April 5, 2020.According to Firsov, the alarming jump in radioactivity was only found in the center of the fire. In a later post on Sunday, he wrote that nuclear specialists had charted no increase to radiation levels in the capital Kyiv, located just 100 kilometers from the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
A Ukrainian Emergency Services Ministry statement on August 6 said that the fire in the Chernobyl exclusion zone has been extinguished with the help of more than 100 firefighters, 26 vehicles, and one Mi-8 helicopter.Ukraine sees spikes in human-sparked forest fires annually, typically in the spring and fall, according to the emergency services ministry. Such fires are more dangerous around Chernobyl, as the trees and plant life are still irradiated from the 1986 nuclear disaster.
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