A construction designed to forestall radioactive leakage on the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine is not operational after Russian drones focused it earlier this 12 months, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog has discovered.
The so-called new secure confinement was constructed as a part of a €1.5 billion Europe-led initiative in 2019 to interchange the reactor destroyed within the plant’s 1986 meltdown, wherein over 30 folks died.
But the massive metal construction “misplaced its main security capabilities, together with the confinement functionality” when its outer cladding was set ablaze after being struck by Russian drones, in line with a brand new report by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
