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April 22, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Thirty-eight years after the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the area contaminated with caesium-137 has shrunk by a factor of 1.8 to 25,500 sq. km, or 12 percent of Belarus’ territory, said Leanid Dziedul, the first deputy head of the country’s radiation safety department Dziar\u017eatamnahlad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He told a press conference in Minsk that 1.5 million hectares of forests and about 19,000 hectares of agricultural land are contaminated with caesium-137 at the level of 1 curie per sq. km.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are 2,022 settlements with about 930,000 people, including 185,000 children, in the contaminated zones of all regions except Viciebsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dziedul said that the radioecological survey of these settlements will be completed in 2024\u20132025, and in early 2026 their list will be adjusted by a corresponding government directive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government allocated three billion rubels for the 2021\u20132025 state program for overcoming the consequences of the Chernobyl accident. Eighteen percent of these funds are earmarked for radiation safety measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the largest man-made disaster in human history, occurred on April 26, 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the plant is located in Ukraine, Belarus was the hardest hit with more than 70 percent of the radioactive fallout contaminating its territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also read: Health officials keep finding radioactive mushrooms and berries 37 years after Chernobyl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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