Russia Thursday insisted that radiation was normal in regions contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster amid concerns forest fires could send a cloud of radioactive particles as far as Moscow.
Russia
Thursday insisted that radiation was normal in regions contaminated by the
Chernobyl
disaster amid concerns forest fires could send a cloud of radioactive particles
as far as
Moscow
.
"We have a full network of monitoring and we carry out frequent
observations," the deputy head of Russian state weather forecaster
Rosgidromet Valery Dyadyuchenko told the Interfax news agency.
"A worsening of the radiation situation and a growth in the background
radiation as a result of a transfer of materials from the fires have not been
recorded anywhere in
Russia
,"
he said.
Russia
's
state forest watchdog Wednesday admitted wildfires hit hundreds of hectares of
land in the western
Bryansk
region contaminated by the
Chernobyl
nuclear disaster, raising fears that buried radioactive particles could be released
into the air.
The forest watchdog quoted data from Aug. 6 but emergency ministry officials
denied there were any fires currently burning in the area.
Russian authorities said there was no reason to panic and played down fears
that the fires could create a cloud of radioactive particles by raising
contaminated matter out from the soil.
But Alexei Yablokov, a former official on ecological questions at the Russian
security council and a founder of Greenpeace in the
Soviet
Union
, told Interfax the particles risked being blown onto
Moscow
or
Eastern
Europe
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