Chernobyl Radiation Back to Normal After Spike at Forest Fire Site

A person holds a Geiger counter at the scene of a forest fire at the Chernobyl exclusion zone, not far from the nuclear power plant, on April 5, 2020. Yaroslav Emalianenko/AFP/Getty Images

Ukrainian authorities said that radiation levels were back to normal after an earlier radiation spike in the restricted zone around Chernobyl, the scene of the world’s worst nuclear accident.

“There is bad news—in the center of the fire, radiation is above normal,” Yegor Firsov wrote on Facebook on Sunday along with a video of a Geiger counter. “As you can see in the video, the readings of the device are 2.3 when the norm is 0.14.”