The forest fires burning through Chernobyl power plant's exclusion zone has crews working through the night to block the blaze from reaching the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster.
A photo taken from the roof of Chernobyl's old nuclear power plant has revealed how close the bushfires raging through Ukraine's forests are from the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster.
Firefighters are working to control the blazes burning through the irradiated forests in the territory surrounding the former nuclear plant., and the blazes have produced swirling smoke which is being blown towards neighbouring regions. Winds had blown the smoke towards rural areas of Russia and nearby Belarus, but they shifted in the direction of Ukrainian capital Kiev over the weekend.
Authorities in Kiev, which has a population of about 3 million people, say radiation levels in the city remain normal.The winds are more of a significant headache for the site of Chernobyl's closed nuclear power plant. Strong gusts could spread the fires towards what is left of the facility as well as the abandoned equipment used to clean up the disaster.
"At the moment we cannot say the fire is contained," acting head of the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management Kateryna Pavlova said.Fires are common inside the"Zone of Alienation", a circle with a 30-kilometre radius that surrounds the old nuclear plant and is fenced in barbed wire.
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