Agency: The protective shield of the Chernobyl power pla has been damaged
The Iernational Atomic Energy Agency announced that the protective shield of the Chernobyl nuclear power pla in Ukraine, which was built on it after the disaster of the explosion of this pla in 1986, no longer has its main safety function due to damage caused by drone attacks.
According to Isna, the Iernational Atomic Energy Agency announced that rece inspections of the coainme steel structure, which was completed in 2019, showed that a drone strike in February, three years after Russia’s conflict in Ukraine, destroyed the structure.
According to Reuters News agency, “Rafael Grossi”, director general of the Iernational Atomic Energy Agency, said in a stateme on Saturday: “The mission of inspectors confirmed that the protective structure has lost its basic safety functions, including coainme capability. It was also determined that there was no permane damage to the load-bearing structures or its monitoring systems.”
Steps have been taken to rebuild the protective shield, Grossi said, but comprehensive reconstruction is still necessary to preve further destruction and ensure long-term nuclear safety.
The United Nations reported on February 14 that Ukrainian officials claimed that a drone struck the pla with an explosive warhead, causing a fire and damage to the protective shield installed around reactor number four, which was damaged in the 1986 disaster.
Ukraine says the drone was from Russia, but Moscow denies the attack on the nuclear power pla.
The United Nations also announced in February that radiation levels were still normal and there was no report of a radiation summit.
The 1986 Chernobyl explosion spread radioactive fallout across Europe, prompting Soviet authorities to mobilize large numbers of people and equipme to deal with the incide. The last active reactor of this power pla was closed in 2000.
Russia took corol of the pla and surrounding areas for more than a moh in the first weeks of its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, as its forces initially attempted to advance toward the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.
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