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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 a cost of €1.5bn ($1.75bn) next to the destroyed reactor and then hauled into place on tracks, with the work completed in 2019 by a Europe-led initiative. The IAEA said an inspection last week of the steel confinement structure found the drone impact had degraded the structure.
The 1986 Chornobyl explosion – which happened when Ukraine was under Moscow’s rule as part of the Soviet Union – sent radiation across Europe. In the scramble to contain the meltdown, the Soviets built over the reactor a concrete “sarcophagus” with only a 30-year lifespan. The new confinement was built to contain radiation during the decades-long final removal of the sarcophagus, ruined reactor building underneath it and the melted-down
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In the latest episode of Ukraine This Week, the Kyiv Independent’s Anna Belokur covers leaked calls showing U.S.-Russia coordination on a controversial peace plan and reports on backlash to Reese Witherspoon’s Moscow-set novel. The episode also covers the resignation of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak amid Ukraine’s biggest wartime corruption scandal.
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An inmate was found dead Saturday after a riot and a blaze swept through a Russian prison under a coronavirus lockdown in eastern Siberia, authorities said.
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Are Russia’s Backfire bombers and their six-ton missiles about to make a big comeback? There are ominous signs they are.
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Steve Witkoff, Trump, and the Three-Decade Pipeline of russian Influence Behind the New “Peace Plan” A deep investigative dive into Steve Witkoff’s long-standing ties to russian money networks, his role in Trump’s Kremlin-aligned Ukraine “peace plan,” and the decades-long pattern linking US real estate, russian capital, and modern geopolitics.
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