Firefighters have managed to comprise a fireplace within the outer cladding of the arch of the protecting construction over the destroyed fourth reactor of the Chornobyl Nuclear Energy Plant.

Supply: Svitlana Hrynchuk, Ukraine’s Minister of Environmental Safety and Pure Assets; Kyiv Metropolis State Administration

Quote from Hrynchuk: "The background radiation within the Exclusion Zone is regular and is being constantly monitored by an automatic monitoring system at 39 factors. Information is distributed to the management centre as soon as an hour across the clock, and in an emergency it’s despatched each minute.

Management ranges of the ambient dose equal charge haven’t been exceeded."

Particulars: In the meantime, Kyiv Metropolis State Administration has additionally reported that background radiation in Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast stays regular. No excesses have been noticed.

The scenario is being constantly monitored, and measurements are taken each 3 hours.

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