Wildfires close in on Chernobyl nuclear reactor amid 'situation critical' warning
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dailystar.co.ukThere is widespread alarm as wildfires rage through the 1,000-square-mile Chernobyl Exclusion Zone – deserted since the 1986 nuclear disaster.
The explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in April 1986, which is believed to have caused as many as 4,000 deaths, left huge areas of Ukraine uninhabitable.
Now huge forest fires are threatening the reactors itself – unused since the disaster and covered in a huge casing of concrete but still intensely radioactive.
Yaroslav Yemelyanenko, head of the Association of Chernobyl tour operators, warned: "The situation is critical. “The zone is ablaze – the local authority claim that everything is under control, but the fire keeps invading new areas.” Yemelyanenko said he fears a repeat of the 1986
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