Radionuclides are radioactive atoms that are unstable and emit radiation.
Digital Desk: Russian military units damaged a new laboratory at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that works to enhance radioactive waste management, the Ukrainian state agency in charge of the Chernobyl exclusion zone said. At the start of the conflict, the Russian troops seized the decommissioned plant. The contaminated area surrounding the facility, which was the location of the world’s worst nuclear meltdown in 1986, is termed as the exclusion zone. According to the state agency, the laboratory, constructed for 6 million euros with help from the European Commission, opened in 2015. “The laboratory had extremely active materials and radioactive samples that are currently in the hands of the enemy, which we expect that destroy itself rather than the civilized world,” the agency stated in a statement. Radionuclides are radioactive atoms that are unstable and emit radiation. Moreover, another worrying development is that radiation monitors around the plant have stopped working, Ukraine’s nuclear regulatory agency said.
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