Chernobyl’s New Safe Confinement Damaged in Drone Strike: IAEA Warns Radiation Shield Lost Key Safety Function, Repairs Could Take Years
Inside a dim, long-abandoned control room at Ukraine’s Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear power plant, the instrument panels are a reminder of a catastrophe the world still hasn’t finished cleaning up. Nearly four decades after the 1986 explosion and fire at Reactor 4—widely regarded as the worst civil nuclear accident in history—engineers are once again racing to prevent radioactive material from escaping,…