(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 10 - In the Red Forest, in the exclusion zone of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant of Chernobyl, where Russian soldiers dug trenches and tried to build fortifications, "abnormally high levels of radiation have been recorded".
This was reported on Telegram by the Ukrainian state company for nuclear energy Energoatom, whose head Petro Kotin together with the specialists of the Company visited one of the areas of the forest.
The external radiation index "is 10-15 times higher than normal", explains Energoatom, adding that "one of the indicators that forms the internal radiation received by occupants from the soil surface (Beta contamination)" is "160 times higher than normal".
Another factor in internal radiation is alpha pollution, which is formed as a result of irradiated nuclear fuel fragments, graphite masonry, etc.
scattered throughout this part of the Red Forest: "These fragments are now found at a depth of 40-80 cm; the occupants have dug deeper. When ingested, this type of radiation is tens and hundreds of times more powerful than gamma and beta radiation. ", states Energoatom,
concluding that all Russian soldiers who have been in the Red Forest and have been digging "for nearly 30 days will have to deal with radiation sickness of varying severity."
(HANDLE).