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BumRushDaShow

(168,888 posts)
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 04:24 PM Dec 2025

Bombed Chornobyl shelter no longer blocks radiation and needs major repair - IAEA

Source: The Guardian

Sat 6 Dec 2025 00.52 EST
Last modified on Sat 6 Dec 2025 10.22 EST


The protective shield over the Chornobyl disaster nuclear reactor in Ukraine, which was hit by a drone in February, can no longer perform its main function of blocking radiation, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has announced.

In February a drone strike blew a hole in the “new safe confinement”, which was painstakingly built at a cost of €1.5bn ($1.75bn) next to the destroyed reactor and then hauled into place on tracks, with the work completed in 2019 by a Europe-led initiative. The IAEA said an inspection last week of the steel confinement structure found the drone impact had degraded the structure.

The 1986 Chornobyl explosion – which happened when Ukraine was under Moscow’s rule as part of the Soviet Union – sent radiation across Europe. In the scramble to contain the meltdown, the Soviets built over the reactor a concrete “sarcophagus” with only a 30-year lifespan. The new confinement was built to contain radiation during the decades-long final removal of the sarcophagus, ruined reactor building underneath it and the melted-down nuclear fuel itself.



The IAEA director general, Rafael Grossi, said an inspection mission “confirmed that the [protective structure] had lost its primary safety functions, including the confinement capability, but also found that there was no permanent damage to its load-bearing structures or monitoring systems”.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/06/chornobyl-disaster-shelter-no-longer-blocks-radiation-and-needs-major-repair-iaea



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Bombed Chornobyl shelter no longer blocks radiation and needs major repair - IAEA (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Dec 2025 OP
Oh. Just "great". electric_blue68 Dec 2025 #1
I believe that is what's known as a "war crime" on the part of Russia AZJonnie Dec 2025 #2
This is very old news popsdenver Dec 2025 #7
Hey, just 19,960 years to go before it's radiation free! LudwigPastorius Dec 2025 #3
Don't worry! The next containment bldg will be built to last longer. nilram Dec 2025 #12
Russia resorting to nuclear terrorism. cstanleytech Dec 2025 #4
I got a fix! purr-rat beauty Dec 2025 #5
But supposedly moniss Dec 2025 #6
I just finished watching Chernobyl yesterday on HBO Max for the 4th time and was wondering neverforget Dec 2025 #8
During the early period of the Ukraine-Russia war BumRushDaShow Dec 2025 #10
It's unreal how little Putin values human life. neverforget Dec 2025 #11
Tony Bourdain went there with Zamir BigmanPigman Dec 2025 #9
Just throw a tarp over the hole. maxsolomon Dec 2025 #13

AZJonnie

(3,647 posts)
2. I believe that is what's known as a "war crime" on the part of Russia
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 04:40 PM
Dec 2025

One of a great many, obviously, but a particularly deplorable one

popsdenver

(2,191 posts)
7. This is very old news
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 06:45 PM
Dec 2025

although, thank you for your info, as many people haven't paid much attention to just how RUTHLESS Putin was to intentionally do this horrific act. Now they are going to have to endanger many people, all over again, and the expense to fix it. Detracting from their war effort...........
It also started a fire inside, so it is much more than just patching it.
It is the equivalent of using a tactical nuclear weapon. I am sure that Putin will be targeting Ukraines many nuclear power plants in a similar fashion.........

Maybe he, and all psychopaths, should be euthanized at birth to avoid them all growing up to be Tyrants or Dictators of entire countries.......

moniss

(8,997 posts)
6. But supposedly
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 06:42 PM
Dec 2025

Saddam, then Gaddafi and most recently Iran are the ones who are going to threaten people from a nuclear perspective. Nobody is saying they weren't/aren't bad cats but the guy who is actually purposely releasing radiation gets treated to "concessions", personal enrichment and visits and summits where he is treated like a god. All while he steals the children of another country so he can use them in the sex trade and as slave labor.

neverforget

(9,513 posts)
8. I just finished watching Chernobyl yesterday on HBO Max for the 4th time and was wondering
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 07:21 PM
Dec 2025

how it was doing. Welp, now I know.

BumRushDaShow

(168,888 posts)
10. During the early period of the Ukraine-Russia war
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 09:07 PM
Dec 2025

idiot Russian soldiers were driving the tanks and other APVs around the facility (including off the designated roads), literally stirring up the contaminated soil beneath the protective top soil layer that had settled over it for the past couple decades.

THEN they started building encampments and dug trenches in the exclusion zone woods near the facility while they occupied it - Satellite photo shows Russian troops were stationed in Chernobyl's radioactive zone





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