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Chernobyl’s New Safe Confinement Damaged in Drone Strike: IAEA Warns Radiation Shield Lost Key Safety Function, Repairs Could Take Years

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
Chernobyl Radiation Shield Damaged: IAEA Says New Safe Confinement Lost Key Safety Function After Drone Strike — Repairs Could Take Years

Chernobyl Radiation Shield Damaged: IAEA Says New Safe Confinement Lost Key Safety Function After Drone Strike — Repairs Could Take Years

A decade-long international effort to “cap” the world’s most infamous nuclear disaster site is now facing a daunting reality: the massive steel arch built to contain the remains of Chernobyl’s destroyed Reactor 4 can no longer fully do the job
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