{"id":139072,"date":"2020-04-06T01:06:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T23:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/06\/bad-news-radiation-spikes-16-times-above-normal-after-forest-fire-near-chernobyl\/"},"modified":"2020-04-06T01:06:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T23:06:46","slug":"bad-news-radiation-spikes-16-times-above-normal-after-forest-fire-near-chernobyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=139072","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Bad news&#039;: radiation spikes 16 times above normal after forest fire near Chernobyl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blaze started on Saturday close to the site of the world\u2019s worst ever nuclear disaster, Ukrainian officials sayUkraine has reported a spike in radiation levels in the restricted zone around Chernobyl, scene of the world\u2019s worst nuclear accident, caused by a forest fire.\u201cThere is bad news \u2013 radiation is above normal in the fire\u2019s centre,\u201d Yegor Firsov, head of Ukraine\u2019s state ecological inspection service, said on Facebook on Sunday. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/apr\/06\/bad-news-radiation-spikes-16-times-above-normal-after-forest-fire-near-chernobyl\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Bad news&#039;: radiation spikes 16 times above normal after forest fire near Chernobyl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blaze started on Saturday close to the site of the world\u2019s worst ever nuclear disaster, Ukrainian officials sayUkraine has reported a spike in radiation levels in the restricted zone around Chernobyl, scene of the world\u2019s worst nuclear accident, caused by a forest fire.\u201cThere is bad news \u2013 radiation is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}