Tag: Radiation
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Radiation Leak Risk: Drone Damage at Chernobyl Facility
Chernobyl’s New Safe Confinement (NSC) facility may have been compromised after a drone strike in February 2025, according to reports. The strike was likely an accident, but the drone carried a high-explosive warhead, creating a hole in the structure, starting a fire, and damaging the protective cladding. Since then, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has…
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Chornobyl Shelter Faces Urgent Repairs as Radiation Containment Fails – IAEA Reports
The protective shield over the Chornobyl disaster nuclear reactor in Ukraine, which was hit by a drone in February, can no longer perform its main function of blocking radiation, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has announced. In February a drone strike blew a hole in the “new safe confinement”, which was painstakingly built at…