Russians Destroy Chernobyl Laboratory
upstart writes:
Live updates: Russians destroy Chernobyl laboratory:
LVIV, Ukraine -- Russian military forces have destroyed a new laboratory at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that among other things works to improve management of radioactive waste, the Ukrainian state agency responsible for the Chernobyl exclusion zone said Tuesday.
The Russian military seized the decommissioned plant at the beginning of the war. The exclusion zone is the contaminated area around the plant, site of the world's worst nuclear meltdown in 1986.
[...] The laboratory contained "highly active samples and samples of radionuclides that are now in the hands of the enemy, which we hope will harm itself and not the civilized world," the agency said in its statement.
Radionuclides are unstable atoms of chemical elements that release radiation.
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[Editor's Note: The original source of this report is the Ukrainian government. I have not yet found an independently verifiable source.]
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