A UN vehicle at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant late last year. Photo: Fredrik Dahl / IAEA UN and Ukrainian nuclear staff are braving Russian gunfire and drones to keep Ukraine, and the rest of Europe, safe from radioactive fallout. Staff have been working to repair drone damage to the containment building at the site…
Photo: KATRIN BOLOVTSOVA/pexels.com A Sydney man has been put on good behaviour bonds after he admitted to illegally importing nuclear material and radioactive substances. The man was sentenced in Downing Local Court on Friday, April 11, after he was summoned to court in March 2024 and pled guilty to two counts of moving and possessing…
The Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine, as seen on September 4, 2024. Photo: Fredrik Dahl / IAEA Ukrainian company Energoatom is condemning any attempt to legitimise Russian occupation of its Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (NPP). The comment follows remarks by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director-general Rafael Grossi recently that the plant could return to…
The drone damage at Chornobyl (left) and IAEA boss Rafael Grossi. Photos: IAEA Ukrainian firefighters are in full control of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant after a drone strike last month caused extensive damage. The large confinement structure covering the No. 4 reactor destroyed in the 1986 accident, the New Safe Confinement (NSC), had a…
The structure housing the Chernobyl reactor after the attack. Photo: IAEA No radiation leak has been detected after a Russian drone blew a hole in the building housing Chernobyl’s destroyed nuclear reactor, the UN’s nuclear watchdog says. Ukrainian firefighters have been working around the clock in freezing weather to extinguish fires ignited by Friday’s (local…
IAEA chief Rafael Mariano Grossi (no helmet) with Ukraine’s Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko (on his right) and his team at a substation. Photo: IAEA Constant fighting around Ukraine’s nuclear power plants is increasing the risks of an accident, the UN’s nuclear watchdog says. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi recently made…