100 firefighters are battling two forest fires in the Chernobyl area in Ukraine.
Two large forest fires near Chernobyl in Ukraine have sent radiation levels in the weather.
The report the Ukrainian authorities on Sunday.
Early Sunday, it was reported that two fires had spread on an area of more than 100 hectares.
Other reports, however, that the fires have spread on an area of respectively about 5 and 20 hectares.
the radiation level in the brandområdet is much higher than usual, making it harder to extinguish fires.
Authorities have mobilized two planes, a helicopter and about 100 firefighters to fight the fire.
People who live nearby are not in danger, report the authorities.
the radiation level in the capital city of Kiev, which is located 100 kilometres south of Chernobyl, do not experience an increase in radiation levels.
Chernobyl was a nuclear power plant that in 1986 experienced an explosion in connection with a security test. The accident sparked more than 400 times the radioactive contamination, as the atom bomb over Hiroshima triggered.
the Accident sent radioactive substances out over most of eastern Europe. There was also measured radioactive radiation, among others, Germany and Sweden. Also in Denmark, the measured Risø-the work of a sharp increase in radioactivity.
the Chernobyl continued to generate electricity until the plant finally closed in 2000.
the Fires on Sunday raging within the exclusion zone that was created after the disaster in 1986.
It is illegal to stay within 30 kilometers of the nuclear power plant. Still lives about 200 people still in the zone.
Fires are common in the forests near the abandoned power plant.
/ritzau/AFP
