Radiation Levels Around Chernobyl Rise After Russia Took Over: Ukrainian Officials

Radiation Levels Around Chernobyl Rise After Russia Took Over: Ukrainian Officials
Smoke and flame rise near a military building after an apparent Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 24, 2022. Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo
Jack Phillips
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Ukraine officials are reporting higher levels of radiation around the Chernobyl nuclear plant after Russian troops took control of the facility Thursday.

“Experts of the Ecocenter connect this with disturbance of the top layer of soil from movement of a large number of radio heavy military machinery through the Exclusion zone and increase of air pollution,” Ukrainian officials in a statement on Friday, according to a translation.
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