
The sarcophagus of the nuclear power plant, damaged in February 2025, arouses concern in the international community.
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Chernobyl Reactor 4 exploded in 1986. New Safe Containment (NCS) was installed in 2016 with an expected duration of a century.
More than forty years after the explosion of its No. 4 reactor, the Chernobyl atomic power plant once again threatens Ukraine and, beyond that, Europe. The risk is not immediate - unless of course shots were directly aimed at the former Soviet power station - but it is taken seriously by the international community, which is looking into this sensitive issue this Monday.
The environmental danger has increased again since, on February 14, 2025, a Russian drone damaged the sarcophagus which confines the reactor damaged in 1986 and its highly radioactive materials, including the melted core.
The drone caused a fire on the upper part of the 109 meter high pharaonic dome (twice the triumphal arch of Paris), built from 2008 before being slid above the reactor destroyed in 2016. The breach was blocked, eight months later, in October 2025, but the damage to the new safe containment (NCS) is in reality significant. This sarcophagus designed to last a century…
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