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Article: Fire Near Chernobyl Stirs Radiation Fears // Strong Winds Carry Ashes Toward Kiev
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 23, 1996
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KIEV, Ukraine Flames engulfed five deserted villages near the
Chernobyl nuclear power plant today, spreading some leftover
radioactive particles from the 1986 explosion and fire into the air.
The blaze began in a deserted village about six miles northwest
of the power plant and was extinguished 7 1/2 hours later. The
amount of radioactivity carried off in clouds of smoke was not
immediately clear.
Officials had feared strong winds would spread the blaze and
contaminants beyond the 18-mile exclusionary zone around the plant,
site of the world's worst nuclear accident 10 years ago this week.
Firefighters from the Chernobyl station rushed to the cluster of
villages after the fast-moving ...