Wildfire in Chernobyl exclusion zone - Russia
Ukrainian authorities said yesterday that a bushfire had broken out in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl, scene of the world's worst nuclear accident in 1986, but radiation levels remained within safe limits.
The fire broken out in dry grass yesterday morning in the area of high radiation less than 10km (six miles) from the power station and later spread over some 10 hectares (25 acres) of woodland, the state emergency service said in statements. Bushfires occur regularly in the woods and grassland around the power station. In 2015 a forest fire burned for four days.
But scientists remain sceptical because trees and brush in the zone have absorbed radioactive particles that can be released into the air by the smoke of a wildfire.
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