Forest fires race across treetops in Chernobyl exclusion zone

Forest fires are edging towards radioactive dumps in the Chernobyl exclusion zone amid warnings of a ‘catastrophic’ threat.    Pictures show smoke blowing over the ‘sarcophagus’ of reactor number four, which exploded in the world’s worst nuclear accident in what was then the USSR in 1986.  So-called ‘crown fires’ – when flames spread at great speed … Read more