Poroshenko classified the terrible consequences of the fires in Chernobyl
Ukrainian officials who claim that there was no environmental pollution as a result of the recent fires in the Chernobyl zone and at the oil depot near Kiev are behaving irresponsibly and criminally.
The head of the All-Ukrainian Environmental League, Tatyana Timochko, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv.
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“We know that sampling to the laboratory, as a rule, is carried out near the area where the combustion is taking place, and is not carried out along the movement of polluted air masses,” she noted.
According to the ecologist, they tried to deceive people, in particular, during a fire at an oil depot near Vasilkov, when the state sanitary and epidemiological service reassured that there was no water pollution, claiming that the nitrate content and water hardness were normal (although these indicators are not related to pollution by combustion products of petroleum products).
“We took samples along the plume both on the days of the fire and 10 days later. We took them at a distance of 2, 8, 10 kilometers (from the fire site). There is a large excess in this plume. Let me emphasize once again: as a rule, samples are taken not where the pollution occurs, and not for the substances that need to be taken,” she says.
“A fire in the Chernobyl zone is an emergency event. Over the almost 30 years since the Chernobyl accident, radionuclides have gone deeper into the soil. During a ground fire, when the root system and top layer of soil burn out, and what is underneath heats up, some of the radionuclides enter the air. As a result of a fire, ash and ash are formed, all of this forms an aerosol and all of this spreads with air masses far beyond the boundaries of the fire site. This is a serious threat not only to this territory but also beyond its borders,” the ecologist emphasizes.
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