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Chernobyl Disaster

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The Chernobyl disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl accident, was a catastrophic nuclear accident.

Chernobyl fire under control, the Ukraine, officials say

Feb 16,2020 3:36 am

A fire that threatened The Abandoned Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant was included, Ukrainian authorities said.

emergency services said on Tuesday, there will be some "threshold to be at the end of" parts of The Forest floor, but it was "no Open Fire " left.

It had been, The Blaze is feared could be the nuclear disaster is threatening The Site of the 1986.

Greenpeace Russia, said on Monday a blaze was only a Kilometer from The Plant itself.

Although fires are common in the area, Greenpeace said This Was the worst in decades. The police have arrested a 27-year-old man and accused him from The Flames .

Ukraine, said President Vladimir Zelensky, he was "carefully monitoring") of The Situation , and praised emergency services for their "courage".

He tweeted that "society needs to know The Truth , and to be sure".

The reactor complex (circled) in the picture on the 9. April from a satellite operated on the earth firm on Monday (13. April), which showed satellite images that the conditions were significantly

improved In the year 1986, the former Nuclear Power plant suffered a catastrophic meltdown, the spread of radioactive fallout over Europe.

Chernobyl and the nearby city of Pripyat were abandoned, since, although they have attracted large number of tourists in recent years.

What is The Situation ? to fight,

hundreds of firefighters as well as aircraft and helicopter, The Fire .

On Tuesday, the state emergency services announced that The Blaze was largely contained.

"There is no Open Fire ," a statement said, adding that it was "a slight smouldering on The Forest floor" in separate places.

"We Are trying to stop the spread of several hot spots of The Fire ," said Volodymyr Demchuk, a senior official from the Ukraine emergency service.

aircraft of 538 tons of water dropped on the flame, on Monday, The Statement said. The background radiation in and around the capital city of Kiev "within normal Limits ".

authorities are fighting The Flames for More Than a week, A picture of 12 shows in April, a portion of the barrier zone blackened by The Flames

in The Past week, there were concerns The Fire could chemicals a threat to the plants, and even the spread of radioactive.

Sergiy Zibtsev, Director, Regional Eastern European Fire Monitoring Center, told the news Agency AFP news agency that The Fire had super "huge" and "unpredictable".

" Local tour operators Yaroslav Emelianenko, said on Monday that it had reached The Fire , Pripyat, and also only 2 km (1. 24 miles) from where most of the hazardous waste from The Plant was stored. "The Situation is critical," he wrote on Facebook.

In the year 2018, More Than 70,000 people visited the city. Last Year , the number is Even Higher , after the success of the HBO mini-series about the disaster.

the Nuclear Power plant of Chernobyl and Pripyat were abandoned, since 1986, when The Plant exploded number 4 reactor.

people living within 30km (18 miles) from the Power Station .

Chernobyl to the generation of electricity until The Plant closed the last operating reactor was finally in the year 2000. replace a decaying sarcophagus built in 1986, the seal in the nuclear materials.

The Chernobyl Disaster : A timeline

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Source of news: bbc.com

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