Current Events > Your April disaster has arrived: Chernobyl almost on fire

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s0nicfan
04/13/20 4:39:13 PM
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52274242
Forest fires that have been burning for several days in northern Ukraine are now no more than a few kilometres from the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear plant, reports say.

Tour operator Yaroslav Emelianenko said one had reached the abandoned town of Pripyat, which used to serve the plant.

He said it was now just 2km (1.24 miles) from where the most dangerous waste from the plant was stored.

Kateryna Pavlova, acting head of the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management, told the Associated Press news agency that they cannot say the fire is contained.

We have been working all night, digging firebreaks around the plant to protect it from fire, she said.

On 5 April Yegor Firsov, acting head of Ukraines state ecological inspection service, said in a Facebook post that radiation levels in the area had risen substantially above normal.

Government officials later rejected this finding, and said the levels in the area were within normal limits. Mr Firsov also withdrew his remarks.

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Doom_Art
04/13/20 4:40:07 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
Government officials later rejected this finding, and said the levels in the area were within normal limits.
"Not great. Not terrible."

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CrazyandLazy
04/13/20 4:43:07 PM
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This year is so terrible.

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Odoylerules
04/13/20 4:44:31 PM
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God hates us
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EverDownward
04/13/20 4:44:35 PM
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Just what the fuck is up with 2020??

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Ishallmakeit
04/13/20 4:46:07 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52274242

add to this the tornadoes that just happened in the US.
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ElatedVenusaur
04/13/20 4:46:23 PM
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I was just thinking we didn't have enough disasters happening.
Goddamn does everything suck.
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evil_zombie11
04/13/20 4:50:09 PM
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Wont the smoke mixed with radiation be a problem? (>o_o;)>

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UnholyMudcrab
04/13/20 4:50:26 PM
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Ishallmakeit posted...
s0nicfan posted...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52274242

add to this the tornadoes that just happened in the US.

And the Anak Krakatau volcano erupting
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Gobstoppers12
04/13/20 4:58:35 PM
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Doesn't this happen a lot?

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Smashingpmkns
04/13/20 5:03:06 PM
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s0nicfan
04/13/20 5:03:10 PM
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Gobstoppers12 posted...
Doesn't this happen a lot?

I don't think so. The article points out that the surrounding towns that are at risk of burning down have been a popular tourist attraction since the radiation level dipped to relatively safe levels. Presumably this means they don't burn down regularly.

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