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Foreign Affairs

bemildred

(90,061 posts) Wed Apr 29, 2015, 04:22 AM Apr 2015

Ukraine: massive forest fire threatens abandoned Chernobyl nuclear plant

Emergency crews in Ukraine are trying to stop a massive forest fire from spreading towards the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Prime Minister Arseniy Yatesenyuk has flown over the area in the north of the country.

There was a warning that high winds were blowing the flames towards Chernobyl where, 29 years ago this week, a reactor fire led to the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

A 30 kilometre exclusion zone remains in place around the plant, which is still contaminated by radioactive particles.

http://www.euronews.com/2015/04/29/ukraine-massive-forest-fire-threatens-abandoned-chernobyl-nuclear-plant/