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Posted on February 14, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 26, 2026
A Russian drone attack damaged Chornobyl's containment structure, risking radioactive leaks, according to the plant's chief engineer.
CHORNOBYL, Ukraine - A Russian drone attack had badly damaged the confinement structure around the disused Chornobyl nuclear power plant intended to prevent the release of nuclear substances, a senior nuclear industry official said on Friday.
"The barrier which was supposed to prevent the spread of radioactive substances has ceased to function according to its original design," Oleksandr Tytarchuk, the plant's chief engineer, told reporters at the stricken plant.
Tytarchuk said the drone had pierced the outer cover of the containment vessel, completed in 2019, and exploded inside.
(Reporting by Yurii Kovalenko; Writing by Ron Popeski; Editing by Leslie Adler)
The main topic is a Russian drone attack that damaged the containment structure of the Chornobyl nuclear plant, risking radioactive leaks.
The damage was reported by Oleksandr Tytarchuk, the chief engineer of the Chornobyl plant.
The containment structure is crucial for preventing the spread of radioactive substances from the disused Chornobyl plant.
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