Russia Blamed for ‘Dramatic’ Bomb Damage to Ukraine Atomic Lab
- IAEA investigators visit nuclear facility in city of Kharkiv
- Monitors witness ‘dramatic and shocking’ destruction
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Russian attacks on a US-designed atomic-physics lab in Ukraine were worse than expected, according to international monitors who gained access to the facility this week.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday in a statement that damage to the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology was “dramatic and shocking” although no radiation was released. The facility, which houses a neutron generator used for research, was built in collaboration with US Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago.