The United States will send a team of experts to check if fires raging near Ukraine's troubled Chernobyl nuclear power plant have increased radiation levels in Belarus, a U.S. diplomat said on Friday. Israel has already evacuated its embassy in Minsk and sent staff home for medical checks amid fears that fires on peat bogs polluted by fallout from the 1986 disaster at Chernobyl, just over the border in Ukraine, will spread radioactive particles.