For some reason, Russia allowed someone the right to steal nuclear capacity from the Chernobyl site. This is the way the Russian are. They don't care about nuclear accidents or radiation. To the Putin Russians, such problems are not problems so much facts of life. These reactors were built long before Putin was ever conidered for any significant leadership in Russia. He knows nothing about nuclear reactors.
By Marianne Guenot
A radiation monitoring lab (click here) near the Chernobyl nuclear site was looted during the Russian invasion, Ukrainian scientists from the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants (ISPNPP) told news outlets over the past week.
The consequences of the Russian invasion of the exclusion zone around the decommissioned nuclear power plant are still emerging after its forces withdrew and allowed Ukraine to recapture the area.
Chernobyl was the site of the world's worst-ever nuclear disaster in 1986. It is also not far from Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, and was an early target in the Russian invasion.
Anatolii Nosovskyi, director of the ISPNPP in Kyiv, told Science that looters apparently took off with radioactive isotopes used to calibrate instruments, as well as nuclear waste left over from the 1986 nuclear accident....
