Nuclear chief: Russia's Chornobyl seizure risked accident

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Thirty-six years after the world's worst nuclear disaster, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday that Russian troops risked causing an accident with their “very, very dangerous” seizure of the Chornobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine.

Thirty-six years after the world's worst nuclear disaster, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday that Russian troops risked causing an accident with their “very, very dangerous” seizure of theWearing a blue IAEA jacket and standing under an orange umbrella during rainfall outside the damaged nuclear power plant, agency Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi said that while the radiation levels are normal, the situation is still “not stable.

Ukrainian officials have said the Russian occupiers held plant workers at gunpoint during a marathon shift of more than a month, with personnel sleeping on tabletops and eating just twice a day. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, noting the Chornobyl disaster anniversary on Twitter, said that “not everyone realized” the dangers of nuclear energy.An April 26, 1986 explosion and fire at Chornobyl sent radioactive material into the atmosphere and became a symbol of the Soviet Union's stumbling final years. The international community, including Russia, spent billions to stabilize and secure the area.

An Associated Press reporter who visited Chornobyl this month saw evidence that Russian soldiers dug trenches in the forested Chornobyl exclusion zone in the earliest hours of the invasion, churning up highly contaminated soil. The International Atomic Energy Agency, which is the world's nuclear watchdog, is based in Austria's capital.

 

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