The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was attacked by Russian forces during the invasion of Ukraine, allowing looters to make off with radioactive material - but the risk of it being used as a weapon is low
has confirmed these reports, saying they are “accurate based on the information available”.says that communication with another lab that houses powerful sources of gamma and neutron radiation has also been cut off, so it is possible that material has gone missing from there too.at the University of Liverpool, UK, says there is no cause for concern over the stolen material, as it wasn’t the right type to create a nuclear weapon.
“Mainly they will be calibration sources, material you use to calibrate detection equipment,” he says. “If they have plutonium laying around in offices, then they have massively broken [global] contamination laws. There are clear rules from the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] for this and that doesn’t seem likely.”
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