{"id":18531,"date":"2022-03-23T04:33:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T04:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=18531"},"modified":"2022-03-23T04:33:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T04:33:14","slug":"russians-have-destroyed-chernobyl-lab-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/03\/23\/russians-have-destroyed-chernobyl-lab-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russians have destroyed Chernobyl lab – Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian troops occupying the Chernobyl nuclear power plant have “looted and destroyed” a laboratory at the site, Ukrainian officials claim.<\/p>\n

The State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management said the Russians had damaged their Central Analytical Labratory – which processed a lot of radioactive waste.<\/p>\n

The state agency said in a Facebook post\u00a0that the laboratory had “highly active samples and samples of radionuclides, which today are in the hands of the enemy”.<\/p>\n

The lab, which cost about six million euros to set up, had also contained “valuable analytical equipment” that were not available elsewhere in Europe, the agency said.<\/p>\n

Chernobyl – the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident in 1986 – is not a working power station but still requires constant management.<\/p>\n

The Russians captured it in the first few days of the war last month, and had kept workers there for weeks before some were released.<\/p>\n

The former nuclear site remains a great concern, and earlier this week Ukraine’s parliament reported that forest fires had erupted in the vicinity of the plant, which were picked up in satellite images.<\/p>\n

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Russian troops occupying the Chernobyl nuclear power plant have “looted and destroyed” a laboratory at the site, Ukrainian officials claim. The State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management said the Russians had damaged their Central Analytical Labratory – which processed a lot of radioactive waste. The state agency said in a Facebook post\u00a0that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[5144,12758,5531,5220,6621,5468,6666,5925,1198,10302,5217,11233,3852,9205,9178,5180,5177,5555,5251,36],"class_list":["post-18531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-accident","tag-captured","tag-chernobyl","tag-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant","tag-europe","tag-facebook","tag-nuclear","tag-nuclear-power","tag-parliament","tag-plant","tag-russian","tag-russian-troops","tag-russians","tag-satellite","tag-troops","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraines-president-volodymyr-zelensky","tag-ukrainian","tag-war","tag-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}