One of them is located close to the site of the old nuclear power plant, only 4 kilometers away from the sarcophagus. That is 22% of the total area of the exclusion zone.Īs I am writing this, three weeks after the start of the fires, at least three of the largest fires continue burning. Satellite images show that an estimated 57 000 hectares of the Cherbobyl exclusion zone has burned so far. With the Greenpeace Russia forest team and global mapping hub, I have been following these wildfires since they began. Satellite images of wildfires in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, taken 18 April 2020 © Greenpeace Global Mapping Hub Source: NASA Worldview, OpenStreetMap
What is one of the largest wildlife areas in Europe will take years to recover. They are now the biggest fires ever recorded in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. The wildfires started on April 3rd, due to abnormally hot, dry and windy weather. The long-lived radionuclides released by the accident mean the disaster continues decades on.
34 years later, Chernobyl radioactivity is still circulating. Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, the fourth reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
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