It's been 37 years since the deadly explosion at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant. Such facilities in Ukraine are now a source of great worry amid the war.
It's been 37 years since the disastrous and deadly explosion at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, then a part of the Soviet Union.Ukraine's nuclear power plants are still a source of concern as the war continues.
The accident at the plant occurred after the fourth reactor at the nuclear power plant "went out of control during a test at low-power, leading to an explosion and fire that demolished the reactor building and released large amounts of radiation into the atmosphere,"although a combination of complex factors are known to have led to the disaster.
Today, its nuclear power plants have once again become a source of nightmares as fears abound for their safety and security amid the relentless fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces. A Russian serviceman guards an area of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in territory under Russian military control, in southeastern Ukraine, on May 1, 2022.There have been a number of occasions now when shelling near the plant has damaged external power lines to the facility, meaning that Ukrainian workers still running the plant have had to rely on emergency generators for the power needed for reactor cooling and other essential nuclear safety and security functions.
Both sides deny each other's accusations while the IAEA's chief has said both sides have built up their military presence around the plant but that his job is "not to point fingers," but to keep the plant safe. "Today, the collective West, flirting with the insane leadership of Kyiv, supplying Nazi Ukraine with weapons and pumping ideology, puts the world on the verge of another atomic catastrophe," he said on his Telegram channel in comments translated by Google, repeating baseless claims.
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