Alarm clear: together with the smoke plume hundreds of kilometers is carried pollution from the burning grass and burning wood, is permeated with radiation. Moreover, the fire can spread to the fate of the contaminated 30-kilometer exclusion zone. Now the background radiation over the burnt areas exceeds the norm by 15 times or more.
the Acting head of the state ecological Inspectorate of Ukraine Yegor Firsov on his page in Facebook posted a video with a dosimeter and there he said: “There is bad news – in the center of the fire radiation above normal. The performance of the device is 2.3 at the rate of 0.14”.
the Fire, according to Firsov, spread fast. First, the fire was 20 hectares, and then a hundred more. Stew began on 4 April. The case has attracted aircraft, were dropped 64 tons of water. With fire fighting more than 140 people, dozens of vehicles, aircraft An-32P and Mi-8 helicopters.
In Kiev it is difficult to breathe due to forest fires in the Chernobyl zone
According to the forest Department of Greenpeace Russia, the situation is evolving dramatically. At mid-day on April 5, the total area damaged by this fire amounted to about twelve thousand hectares, of which about one third falls into the territory of Chernobyl exclusion zone. Visible on the satellite images of the smoke plume from this fire extends to the Southeast for about two hundred miles, passing just West of Kiev. Distance from the nearest edge of the fire until the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is about fifty kilometers.
according to experts, citing data from the remote monitoring focal forest fires observed in the zone of Chernobyl trace in other parts of Ukraine, and also in the Western districts of the Bryansk region and Belarus. In General, due to winters with little snow and an early warm spring the situation with the town of Nicolosi, rightattname fires in the Chernobyl trace in the neighboring territories of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia is extremely tense.
