Forest fires are emitting substantial amounts of greenhouse gases and particulate matter
into the atmosphere than assumed in state climate targets. It can play an important role in …

From early April 2020, wildfires raged in the highly contaminated areas around the
Chernobyl nuclear power plant (CNPP), Ukraine. For about 4 weeks, the fires spread around …

Following the 1986 Chornobyl accident, an area approaching 5000 km2 surrounding the
nuclear plant was abandoned, creating the Chornobyl exclusion zone (CEZ). Although this …

Calculating atmospheric dispersion in a hypothetical nuclear accident plays an essential
role as a predictive tool in nuclear emergency planning. The Nuclear Accident …

The emission inventories of cesium-137 resulting from the wildfires in the Chernobyl
Exclusion Zone (3–24 April 2020) and from the dust storm (16–17 April 2020), which …

Recurrent wildfires in Ukraine exert severe impacts on the environment, human health and
security as well as damage to private and public assets. From 2007 to 2020, the frequency of …

In April 2020, several wildfires took place in and around the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
These fires reintroduced radioactive particles deposited during the 1986 Chernobyl disaster …

Thirty-five years after the accident, large forest areas in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone still
contain huge amounts of radionuclides released from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant …

The aim of this study was to assess the exposures received by firefighters engaged in
extinguishing the large-scale wildfires in the most contaminated areas of the Ukrainian part …

This paper demonstrates the environmental impacts of the wildfires occurring at the
beginning of April 2020 in and around the highly contaminated Chernobyl Exclusion Zone …