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Russian Strike Endangers Chernobyl's Safety, Warns Director
12/23/2025
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- A Russian strike threatens the Chernobyl power station, plant director Sergiy Tarakanov warns, risking collapse of the internal radiation shelter damaged by prior attacks.
- Radiation levels remain stable.
- The International Atomic Energy Agency says the facility has lost its primary safety functions.
- Restoration could take three to four years.
- Russia captured the plant early in its 2022 invasion.
