A Russian strike could collapse the internal radiation shelter at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine, the plant’s director has told AFP.
“If a missile or drone hits it directly, or even falls somewhere nearby, for example, an Iskander, God forbid, it will cause a mini-earthquake in the area,” Sergiy Tarakanov, Director General of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant told AFP in an interview conducted last week.
“No one can guarantee that the shelter facility will remain standing after that. That is the main threat,” he said of the steel-and-concrete sarcophagus that surrounds the reactor core.
