At the same time, because of the fire in the Chernobyl zone, control over the radiation situation. This is stated in the press release of the State Agency of Ukraine for the management of the Exclusion Zone.

According to the report, now the data on the equivalent dose rate of gamma radiation and the content of radionuclides in the air in the fire region. At the same time, the department was assured that there is no deterioration of the radiation state in the exclusion zone and adjacent territories, the radiation situation is under control.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, rescuers managed to reduce the fire area in the Chernobyl zone from 25 to eight hectares. Attraction of ground forces is complicated by an increase in the radiation background in the combustion site. The threat of the spread of fire to other forest areas is absent.