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Chernobyl's Protective Shield Can No Longer Confine Radiation, UN Nuclear Watchdog Says


"A structure designed to prevent radioactive leakage at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine is no longer operational," reports Politico, "after Russian drones targeted it earlier this year, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog has found." [T]he large steel structure "lost its primary safety funct...

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