‘Grave concern.’ Invasion puts spotlight on Ukraine nuclear reactors

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‘Grave concern.’ Invasion puts spotlight on Ukraine nuclear reactors

A greater risk would have been explosions from artillery impacting soil around the site contaminated with radioactive cesium, which could then become airborne as dust, Barrett said.

Barrett noted that Chernobyl is 10 miles from the border with Belarus, an ally of Russia, and that much of the contamination — outside the containment zone — is in Belarus and Russia itself, so any tampering with the plant would spread contamination into those areas.

“That doesn’t make any sense if they were going to do something detrimental at the Chernobyl site; the contamination is going to go into Belarus long before it goes anywhere else,” Barrett said.


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