Interview with Sergiy Zibtsev for NBC News - "Ukraine in flames: Chernobyl wildfire highlights a dangerous tradition"

April 20, 2020
Kyiv

 Villagers' embrace of traditional field-burning clashes with modern need to safely contain nuclear waste for generations to come.

KYIV, Ukraine – Wind-whipped wildfires have in recent days raged perilously close to the exclusion zone at Chernobyl, the site of what is considered to have been the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

But these fires were no accident — they were set by villagers who were clearing their land for planting, burning the grass away just as their forefathers had done.

They illustrate the tension that can exist between age-old traditions and modern imperatives. The question for authorities is this: how to reconcile the wish of farmers and others to continue a practice that may have been going on for generations with the need to contain radioactive waste for years to come?

 

Full text of the interview at the link: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ukraine-flames-chernobyl-wildfire-highlights-dangerous-tradition-n1186036

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