By Deepak Bora.
The Russian Armed Forces on direct order from President Vladimir Putin on Thursday invaded Ukraine and they seized the 1986 era partly damaged Chernobyl nuclear power plant. It is probably one of the most radioactive places in the world today.
The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is a 2,600-square kilometre (1,000-square mile) area of forest areas and it presently exists between the Belarus-Ukraine border and Kyiv.
The environment ministry said the Russian troops’ takeover of the zone could have grave consequences.
However, experts at Ukraine’s state nuclear agency said the radiation-level change was caused by the movement of heavy Military Trucks and other Vehicles, Tanks, Artillery equipment, etc. in the area. These movements have resulted radioactive dust to be lifted into the air.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that the radiation at the site did not pose any danger to the general public.
“The readings reported by the regulator – of up to 9.46 microsieverts per hour – are low and remain within the operational range measured in the Exclusion Zone since it was established,” the IAEA said.
Levels are normal’
On Friday, Russia’s defence ministry confirmed its forces seized control of the area near the power plant.
“Yesterday, on February 24, units of the Russian Airborne Forces took full control of the area around the Chernobyl NPP [Nuclear Power Plant],” ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.
“Radiation levels are normal in the NPP area. The NPP personnel continue to operate the power plant as usual and to monitor radiation levels.”

IAEA Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi added it was of vital importance that the safe and secure operations of the zone’s nuclear facilities should not be affected or disrupted in any way.
Ukraine’s neighbour Poland said it had not recorded any increase in radiation levels on its territory.
Reactor No 4 at the power plant exploded and caught fire deep in the night on April 26, 1986, shattering the building and spewing radioactive material high into the sky.
Soviet authorities made the catastrophe even worse by failing to tell the public what had happened, angering European governments and the Soviet people.
The two million residents of Kyiv were not informed despite the fallout danger, and the world learned of the disaster only after heightened radiation was detected in Sweden.
As many as 4,000 people may have died as a result of exposure to radiation, according to the United Nations.
On Friday, Russia’s defence ministry confirmed its forces seized control of the area near the power plant.
“Yesterday, on February 24, units of the Russian Airborne Forces took full control of the area around the Chernobyl NPP [Nuclear Power Plant],” ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.
“Radiation levels are normal in the NPP area. The NPP personnel continue to operate the power plant as usual and to monitor radiation levels.”

THEREFORE, THE Chernobyl NUCLEAR Plant Is Unharmed Despite Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Scientists have assured till date and time, ie. 26th. February, 2022.
The nation’s 15 operating reactors have also been assessed as safe — at least for the moment.
The failed Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine as well as the nation’s 15 operating reactors are safe and secure amid Russia’s invasion, according to nuclear experts and the International Atomic Energy Agency, a division of the United Nations that sets safety standards for the world’s nuclear reactors and inspects them for compliance.
“The only real danger is possible if nearby targets are hit Unknowingly by both sides in an Act of War either by tank shelling or plane bombings or even by guided missiles gone awry, and thus cause probable irreparable damage,” said Edwin Lyman, a reactor expert at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a private group in Cambridge.
In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was subject to a massive meltdown that sent radioactive clouds over parts of Europe and locally left a wasteland of contaminated soil.
All the existing four Chernobyl reactors are still shut down as in 2022, and the plant’s work force closely monitors the safety of Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor. Actually in 1986, it was this reactor which exploded and caught fire. An exclusion zone for hundreds of square miles surrounds the abandoned plant to limit public access and inhabitation.
The nuclear plant geographical area is approximately 10 miles distance from Belarus, a Russian ally. It is on one of Russia’s main invasion routes. Western Nuclear research experts commented that it was in Moscow’s interest to keep Ukraine’s reactors and electrical system running smoothly if its aim was regime change rather than national ruin.
Ukraine’s environmental protection ministry has stated, “In the terrible hands of the aggressor, any aggressor for that matter, this significant amount of plutonium-239 can become a nuclear bomb that will turn thousands of hectares into a dead, lifeless desert,”
So now it will also be Mr. Vladimir Putin’s added responsibility as President, to ensure that this stretch of land at Chernobyl is not tampered with by undesirable elements. The Russian Government and the existing, prezent Ukranian Govt. have to ensure that this escalation in Nuclear Danger is minimised to extinction.
The TIME FOR TRADE WINDS TO START HAS COMMENCED ALL OVER THE WORLD.
IF DISTURBED BY WAR MANEUVRES, THIS STRETCH OF LAND AND EARTH WILL BE CARRIED BY THE WINDS ALL OVER THE WORLD. NOW, WE DO NOT WANT HIGHLY RADIO ACTIVE AND TOTALLY CONTANIMATED DUST TO COVER OUR WORLD!
The distance from Moscow to Chernobyl is about 697 kms. as the crow flies. Arial distance. Time taken for North Easterly Trade winds to reach will mean about 48 hours at the most at about 60 kms. Per hour upwards into the atmosphere. Resultant downward plunge of dust and dirt to the earth’s surface is minimal time taken. Considering that the out of bounds zone is about 1000 kms. across, Eastern to Western Europe and down south, upwards to North Pole is also to be considered.
Or we have to console ourselves by the fact that we have acquired immunity over the past 36 years!
PERHAPS, if we look back down the historical chapters, that was one reason why the H Bombs were not dropped over Germany in 1945 at the end of the Second World War.
Because the Trade Winds would affect Great Britain and most of Europe.
Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A Cooling tower overlooking it.