A member of the public council at the State Agency for Management of the Exclusion Zone (GASO) of Ukraine, Yaroslav Emelianenko, said that forest fires in the Chernobyl zone burn 2 km from storage facilities with highly radioactive waste.
It is reported by “112 Ukraine” with reference to the post Emelianenko on Facebook.
“The situation is critical. The area is blazing. The local authorities report that everything is under control, but in fact, fire is rapidly seizing new territories, ” he wrote.
According to him, at the moment the fire “goes to Pripyat.”
Emelianenko noted that the fire is “2 km from the Podlesny radioactive waste storage facility, where the most highly radioactive waste from the entire Chernobyl zone is located.”
GAZO previously stated that forest fires in the Chernobyl zone due to strong winds reached the Yanov railway station, which is located about 3 km from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
On April 4, it was reported that a forest fire had begun in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. On the fact of the fire, the Ukrainian police opened a criminal case.
According to the latest data, rescuers continue to extinguish a fire in the territory of three forestries in the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.