Employees Return to Chernobyl After Fire
Associated Press
MOSCOW —
Employees resumed work at the Chernobyl nuclear plant Sunday, two days after a fire destroyed part of the roof but caused no radiation leaks.
Vasily Kostitsky, a spokesman for the Ukraine Environmental Protection Ministry, said operations at the two reactors unaffected by Friday’s fire were operating normally on Sunday.
In April, 1986, an explosion and fire at Chernobyl spewed radiation around the world and caused at least 32 deaths.
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