Russia-Ukraine (March 22): Russians Destroy Chernobyl Laboratory: Ukrainian State Agency

Russia-Ukraine (March 22): Russians Destroy Chernobyl Laboratory: Ukrainian State Agency
The structure of the New Safe Confinement (NSC) covering the 4th block of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which was destroyed during the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, is pictured on Nov. 22, 2018. Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images
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Russians Destroy Chernobyl Laboratory: Ukrainian State Agency

Russian military forces have destroyed a new laboratory at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that among other things works to improve management of radioactive waste, the Ukrainian state agency responsible for the Chernobyl exclusion zone said Tuesday.

The Russian military seized the decommissioned plant at the beginning of the war. The exclusion zone is the contaminated area around the plant, site of the world’s worst nuclear meltdown in 1986.