Nuclear Watchdog Sees Chernobyl-Style Risk at Kursk Reactor
- Kursk operating same reactor model that melted down in 1986
- IAEA’s Grossi says he’s enormously concerned, plans to visit
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The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said it’s enormously concerned by fighting near a Russian nuclear power plant because the old Soviet reactors in operation are particularly exposed.
The Kursk Nuclear Power Plant has been thrust onto the front line of the war between Russia and Ukraine after an incursion by Kyiv’s forces placed them within artillery range, according to International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi.