Ukraine stay ticker: Zelenskyj publishes Ukrainian 20-point plan | EUROtoday

On Dec 24, 2025

Get real time updates directly on you device, subscribe now.

According to Ukrainian data, the essential reactor protecting shell on the broken Chernobyl nuclear energy plant is susceptible to collapse within the occasion of a Russian assault. A rocket or drone assault close to the facility plant can be sufficient to set off a mini-earthquake, energy plant supervisor Serhiy Tarakanov informed AFP. No one can assure that the protecting cowl, which has already been broken by a Russian assault, “will still remain standing afterwards”. This is presently “the greatest danger”.

The roof of the outer protecting shell was severely broken in a Russian drone assault in February. A serious hearth destroyed elements of the outside cladding. “Our NSC has lost several of its core functions. And we expect that it will take at least three to four years to restore these functions,” Tarakanov defined.

However, the radiation ranges on the web site are presently “stable and within normal limits”. The largest gap within the outer shell attributable to the Russian drone assault has now been lined with a protecting layer. However, round 300 smaller holes that had been created throughout the extinguishing work nonetheless have to be repaired.

A reactor exploded on April 26, 1986 on the Chernobyl nuclear energy plant, positioned round 100 kilometers north of Kiev. The Soviet-era incident is taken into account the world’s largest nuclear catastrophe and contaminated giant areas in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.

The stays of the nuclear energy plant are surrounded by an inside radiation defend fabricated from metal and concrete – generally known as a sarcophagus – which was swiftly constructed after the catastrophe. A extra trendy outer protecting shell, known as New Safe Confinement (NSC), surrounds the complete reactor. The shell isolates the destroyed fourth reactor block of the Chernobyl nuclear energy plant and prevents the discharge of radioactive radiation.

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ukraine/ukraine-liveticker-selenskyj-veroeffentlicht-ukrainischen-20-punkte-plan-faz-110683325.html