Guest Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 Fighting breaks out close to Chernobyl nuclear waste facility, says Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukrainian troops fighting to ensure ‘tragedy of 1986 will not be repeated’ The Russian invasion of Ukraine is endangering the wreckage of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (Chernobyl NPP), source of one of the worst man-made disasters in history. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted Thursday morning that Russian forces were trying to seize the plant and the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the area around the plant left radioactive after the 1986 disaster. His claims could not immediately be independently verified - though there have been fears for weeks that if Russia did invade Ukraine, the Chernobyl exclusion zone could be one path for Russian forces to attack Kyiv. Roughly 70 miles north-northwest of Kyiv, the ruins of the exploded Chernobyl Reactor No. 4 are still considered highly dangerous, with massive quantities of contaminated material inside a giant metal sarcophagus. The long-term impact of the reactor's explosion is still a source of heated debate. The official death toll remains a few dozen, but some have predicted 90,000 people or more could ultimately die of Chernobyl-linked cancers, just from the contamination already spread at the time. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant-wreckage-at-risk-in-ukraine-russia-fight/3570164/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SadBoi808 1,120 Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amidana 4,322 Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 If I may, how would they seize it? It’s not like they can put a Russian flag on the land…. Is it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimisaMonster 31,073 Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 A coworker of mine literally gave me a Chernobyl souvenir when he was there just a couple months ago... How things can change so quickly... Stream my new single, 💜"Heartbeat"💜, on Spotify! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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