The U.N. nuclear watchdog said the radiation situation was 'within the limits' for the site.
for three days in early March after power lines were damaged — raising concerns that cooling of radioactive material stored there could be disrupted and risk radioactive leakage that could be carried by wind to other parts of Europe.
Lobada told the BBC that when the site lost power, he moved to "find fuel to keep the generator running" by "stealing" some of it from Russians forces. "If we had lost power, it could have been catastrophic," Oleksandr said. "Radioactive material could have been released."Although Chernobyl isn't an active power station, the sarcophagus above the reactor that exploded in the nuclear disaster has to be maintained in order to prevent further radiation leaks,A significant amount of spent nuclear fuel has to be taken care of at the plant.
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