Ukraine Warns That Power Cut at Chernobyl Could Cause Nuclear Accident
Ukrainian authorities said Wednesday that a power cut caused by Russian attacks on Kyiv could deprive the Chernobyl nuclear site of power within 48 hours, leading to a potential meltdown of spent nuclear fuel.
The warning was the latest of several incidents threatening Ukraine’s nuclear sites in the wake of the Russian invasion of the country last month.
The International Atomic Energy Agency on Wednesday played down risks of an imminent problem at Chernobyl, the site of the world’s biggest nuclear accident, in 1986, which contaminated large areas of surrounding countryside and sent a plume of radioactive dust that spread across Europe. They and other experts say Ukraine’s nuclear facilities are on the whole modernized and robust.
Never before has such an intense conflict taken place around so many nuclear power facilities.
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