Chernobyl disaster

Forest fires in the exclusion zone around Ukraine's closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant haven't led to a rise in radioactivity levels in Bulgaria, the Interior Ministry in Sofia said on Thursday.

According to the Interior Ministry, "there is no risk for the lives and health of the people on Bulgaria's territory", state news agency BTA reported.

Alina Rudya was one year old when her parents abandoned their Prypyat home because of the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl.

The huge forest fire which broke out on Tuesday in northern Ukraine continues to incinerate everything in its path and now threatens the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear plant.

The Ukrainian Minister of Interior  states that due to the strong winds, the forest fire has taken a turn for the worse, has turned into the largest one since 1992, and is heading straight for Chernobyl.

Firefighters have brought under control a forest fire near Ukraine's Chernobyl plant, scene of the world's worst nuclear accident in 1986, the emergency services said on April 29.

Meet “Radioactive girl”, what the Daily Mail calls a “superhero scientist” who ventures into the heart of the Chernobyl exclusion zone to eat the radioactive apples and pose in the doomed reactor’s control room.

The identity of the woman is unknown, as she only goes by the name “vlogger Bionerd”.

See her images below from the site.

The nuclear power explosion at the Chernobyl power plant happened on April 26, 29 years ago.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko arrived near the site in order to honor the memory of the victims of the heavy industrial incident that left a mark on the entire world.