There are fears it could release dangerous radiation into the environment. 9News
in northern Ukraine sparking fears it could release dangerous radiation into the environment.
In this photo taken from the roof of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant late Friday April 10, 2020, a forest fire is seen burning near the plant inside the exclusion zone. "The situation is critical. The zone is burning," he wrote in a Facebook post. The first blaze began on the weekend of April 4 after locals set fire to grass on the edge of the 2600 square-kilometre "exclusion zone", which permits people from living within 30km of the plant.
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