GreenPeace: 'Fire In the Chernobyl exclusion zone burning 10,000 hectares of forest, peat bogs and fields'. (Greenpeace). [GoogleTranslate].
The fire occurred in the 30-kilometer zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Distance from the nearest point to the fire station (sarcophagus), only about 15 kilometers.
The fire took place on the moor eight kilometers west of the city of Pripyat, and can stay there for a long time, throwing out a large amount of smoke.
"Train the smoke blows wind on the territory of Belarus in the direction of Svetlogorsk, Zhlobin, Bobruisk, Mogilev. Prospects for the rapid elimination of the fire is not possible a very major disaster with a strong secondary contamination vast territory, "- said the head of the forest program Greenpeace Russia Yaroshenko.
According to weather forecasts, in the near future can turn plume of smoke towards the west, in the direction of Minsk.
Recall that radioactive peatlands exist in Russia, in the Bryansk region. Last year, the burning of peat bogs zone "Chernobyl trace" gave smoke, including in Moscow .
Experts Greenpeace went and found the fire in October last year , in the spring of this year, the authorities have made the region extinguish the peat bogs that smoldered all winter. Hmmmm......These countries have a tradition of controlled burning, perhaps 'control' was absent this time? Experience has shown dried peat land fires to be nearly impossible to extinguish.
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.@olliecarroll If true, this is 100 sq km of the 2,600 sq km #Chernobyl exclusion zone. Videos don't show such a big scale
— Olexiy Solohubenko (@OS1954) April 29, 2015
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