Talk about the fact that haze over Kiev was the result of fires in the Chernobyl zone, have alarmed the people of Kiev. Some were afraid that because of the "Chernobyl smoke has increased the level of radiation.
get around the city with a dosimeter: in most places the radiation levels within the normal range, but actually rolls over the device near the Parliament and on Independence Square. Compared with last year's measurements, the radiation level there has doubled, exceeding even the maximum permissible norms.
First of burned areas in the Zone began the opposition in MOE assured that everything is in order - say, burns, but not there. But later, the chief State Department of Administration Zone Sergei Sus nevertheless acknowledged: from 2 to 5 August in the forests of the Zone really have been two fires, but they were quickly eliminated, and the reasons for concern.
CHECK. We decided to find out whether the fire at Chernobyl left their mark on the radiation background of the capital. In most places, our dosimeter and in fact showed a normal level. A member state ekoinspektsii Marian Jakubowski told "Today" that it is permissible for a person standard background radiation is 30 mR / hr. Thus, the red building near the University of background radiation was yesterday, only 16 mR / h, the same was near the Lenin monument on the boulevard Shevchenko. Even more - 24 mR / h - was at the walls of the Metropolitan Municipality on Khreschatyk, 36, two grades above - on the waterfront near Rechporta. On the Independence dosimeter jumped norm - showed 32 mR / h, but most of all surprised by the Verkhovna Rada. Fortunately, the MPs are on holiday and unaware of the danger. There, the unit gave all 41 mR / h! Curiously, a year ago and on the Maidan, and near the parliament indicators of our dosimeter were twice as less! In the main square and near the parliament, he highlighted the 18 mR / hr.
CAUSES. "It is not that at Chernobyl burned grass. Just in the last few days is very hot weather (the sun above the background) and no rain. And the water makes less fonit - washes away the dust. With respect to specific objects, the radiation level is always higher where there is concrete, granite or sand. They absorb it and always have a natural background. The beach is roughly the same as that of the Maidan ", - told us a physicist and former member of the Group of Experts EBRD Chernobyl Victor Bar'yakhtar.
Jakubowski said that if it is about three hours next to the object, which emits more than 30 mR / h, it is already causing harm to the body - accumulate carcinogens.
But Bar'yakhtar believes that it is not so: "All" Chernobyl radiation "far underground, and no longer dangerous. And to the radiation from buildings, which is not so bad, our people are accustomed to ", - he said. The Metropolitan Sanitary Sergey Timoshenko also believes that such radiation is no longer affects the people of Kiev. "In Kiev, the level of radiation varies time to time, this is due to climatic factors. But people it does not affect. And with the recent fires if not connected "- he says.
MORE colds. In the City Health Department said that complaints of feeling unwell because of the smoke was not. "Is that because of the heat Kievites become more contact with hypertensive crisis and cardiovascular diseases, has also become more colds, because people drink cold and sit under the air conditioner. However, breathing problems, for example, was not ", - said deputy Vladimir Zagorodnii City Health Service.
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