Russia captured Chernobyl. How worried should we be? : NPR
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"If there were weapons used against Chernobyl, you know, there were some kind of new accident that caused further leakage of radioactive material, the fact that it's in a massive exclusion zone would significantly mitigate the consequences of that," he said.While nuclear power is not the main concern of the Ukrainians who are being forced to flee their country, Acton said Russia's actions are still "enormously worrying."Nuclear power facilities are built and designed to have very low probability rates of major accidents, but of the few accidents that have occurred throughout history, the impact has been enormous, including the 1986 event at Chernobyl."The chance of a major accident at a Ukrainian plant today is not microscopically small anymore, but the consequences are still very large," Acton said.
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