the fires stops favoring dry weather also more. Weather services, according to the first-next Tuesday-richer rains are expected. The radioactive radiation in the adjacent populated areas are within the Norm. When you Fire it looks apparently different. “There is some bad news: In the center of the fire, the radioactivity is above-average,” wrote Yegor Firsov, head of the state environmental inspection service, on Sunday in the online service Facebook. He published a Video in which a Geiger counter showed a reading of 16 Times of the normal value.
The fires had broken out last Saturday. On Sunday, two planes, a helicopter and hundreds of firefighters were deployed to fight the fire. The authorities had also spoken of the “difficulties” in the Work because of the increased radio activity in some areas. Surrounding towns were not endangered.
Regular fire exit in the restricted zone
After the reactor accident 34 years ago, a 2,600-square-kilometer restricted zone was erected within a Radius of 30 kilometers around the site of the former nuclear power plant – approximately 300,000 people had to their home. Commercial agriculture is still forbidden. For several years, the area is but for led are accessible to tourists. In the past years, there were repeated Fires in the unpopulated areas. As the cause has often been assumed to be arson.
The reactor block 4 of the Soviet nuclear power plant Chernobyl was on 26. April 1986 during a safety test explodes. The GAU, around a hundred kilometers North of the Ukrainian capital city of Kiev, the most serious nuclear accident in the history, the surroundings of the Nuclear power plant is exposed to strong today.
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