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Reporter’s notebook: Inside Ukraine’s nuclear plants at war
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Reporter’s notebook: Inside Ukraine’s nuclear plants at war

by Dominic Culverwell

Walking around a nuclear power plant in north-western Ukraine, it feels like there are as many soldiers as there are plant workers. The guns are an unnerving sight, but not unexpected — the border with Belarus is just 65 kilometers away. At the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, employees at the Rivne nuclear power plant prepared for occupation, as Russian troops entering from Belarus swiftly captured the Chornobyl plant. Then, days later, the Russians did something even more egregious — th

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EU commissioners in Ukraine to make Chornobyl safe, again

The EU's commissioners for economy and for energy, Valdis Dombrovskis and Dan Jørgensen, arrived in Kyiv on April 26, the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, to discuss protecting Ukraine's energy infrastructure and the need to fundraise to repair a shelter that still protects from radioactive fallout created in the world's worst-ever nuclear disaster. A Russian drone, potentially costing as little as $70,000, struck the New Safe Confinement (NSC) protective shelter of the destr

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