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10th April 2020 - Chernobyl fires: Radiation fears as firefighters struggle to contain blazes in radioactive zone

Extracts:

A senior environmental official, Egor Firsov, said at the weekend that radiation in the area was detected at 16 times higher than normal background levels.

A 27-year-old resident of a settlement near the exclusion zone is under investigation on suspicion of having started at least one of the local fires.

Comment:

Fires in the Chernobyl nuclear plant fallout contamination zones are always of concern, because they often release large amounts of radioactive fallout contamination back into the atmosphere.

These recurring fire events place the firefighters and local communities at risk of being exposed to significant radiation exposure.

https://www.9news.com.au/world/chernobyl...6e27810315

Southern Hemisphere February & March 2020 Background Level Reports
Station location

http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg

This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA

March 2020 day average background chart. (Month Average 108 cpm)

Local background radiation levels for March were stable.



February 2020 day average background chart. (Month Average 109 cpm)

Local background radiation levels for February were stable.



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