Ukraine nuclear agency reports rise in Chornobyl radiation levels after Russian troops seize control

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PUBLISHED FRI, FEB 25 20228:15 AM ESTUPDATED 3 HOURS AGO

Sam Meredith@SMEREDITH19

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  • Experts at the state nuclear agency said in a statement that the change was due to the movement of a large number of heavy military machinery lifting the top layer of soil into the air.
  • An explosion and fire at the Chornobyl power plant on April 26, 1986, led to the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
  • Russian forces captured control of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant on Thursday, prompting an advisor to the presidential office to warn it was now “impossible” to consider the shuttered reactor safe.

The New Safe Confinement seals off the Object Shelter, also known as the Sarcophagus, a temporary structure built in 1986 over the debris of the 4th reactor of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Kyiv Region, norther

The New Safe Confinement seals off the Object Shelter, also known as the Sarcophagus, a temporary structure built in 1986 over the debris of the 4th reactor of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Kyiv Region, northern…

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