Putin’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine is creating new environmental hazards, writes AlexSdelaGarza. Some of those environmental risks, like a release of radiation from one of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants, could have devastating consequences
The Environmental Health Risks of War in a Highly Industrialized Country Like UkraineUkrainian Press Service of National Nuclear Energy Generation Company Energoatom/APuring a lull between air raid warnings earlier this month, Iryna Nikolaieva sat in a stairwell of a Kyiv bomb shelter where she had been living for three days and called engineers at two chemical plants near the front lines in the country’s east.
Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine has already caused unimaginable suffering, with millions of civilians forced to flee their homes, and thousands of others trapped under Russian shelling in cities like Mariupol. The fighting is also creating new environmental hazards, which threaten to add to the war’s human cost. Some of those environmental risks, like a release of radiation from one of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants, could have immediate and devastating consequences.
This file photograph taken on December 8, 2020 shows a general view of Chernobyl nuclear power plant and giant protective dome built over the sarcophagus of the destroyed fourth reactor.That facility in particular could be extremely susceptible to damage, and an accident could have catastrophic consequences. The Toresk facility has two huge man-made toxic waste ponds, each emitting sickly-sweet phenol fumes, along with gaseous naphthalene and formaldehyde .
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