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Chernobyl Radiation Levels Suddenly Surge 17x
by Tyler Durden
Wed, 04/08/2020 - 04:30
Radiation across the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone spiked 17x as firefighters over the weekend battled a 250-acre forest fire, reported NBC News.
More than 100 firefighters, several Antonov AN-32P Firekiller air tankers, and a Mil Mi-8 helicopter were dispatched near the village of Vladimirovka to fight the fire. Ukrainian emergency services said firefighters battled the blaze over the weekend and wrapped up operations by Monday.
Firsov said the spike in radioactivity was observed in the proximity of the fire. He wrote in a Sunday post that nuclear experts recorded no increase of radiation levels in the capital, Kyiv, about 60 miles from the exclusive zone.
Vladimirovka is part of a 1,000-square-mile exclusion zone, which was deserted in 1986 after the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explosion, which exposed millions of people to radioactive materials across Europe. The region is the most radioactively contaminated area in the world.
We've noted in the past that "radioactive fallout has been blamed for hundreds of thousands of deaths, but the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) acknowledges only 56 deaths among firefighters who suffered and died agonizing deaths in the disaster's immediate aftermath."
Earlier this year, we showed how certain types of fungi are attracted to radiation. And the radioactive site of the abandoned Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant has seen an abundance of fungi growing on it over the years.
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/chernobyl-radiation-levels-suddenly-surge-17x