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Chernobyl fires burning close to reactor spark fears of radiation contamination
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Huge forest fires that have been burning through Chernobyl for the last eight days are now close to the exploded reactor, causing fears of radiation contamination.
Radiation levels are reportedly much lower than in the aftermath of the 1986 explosion, but could still be a risk. Wildfires currently raging through the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in the Ukraine are being tackled by firefighters hoping to build firebreaks around the destroyed plant so the flames don’t reach it.
The fires started after a man, who has now been detained, set dry grass alight near the exclusion zone, according to police.
The flames are moving ever closer to the plant as workers rush to cover its sarcophagus, and there are now concerns that radiation in the ground
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