{"id":3898,"date":"2025-02-15T11:38:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T11:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/?p=3898"},"modified":"2025-02-15T11:38:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T11:38:42","slug":"strike-on-chernobyl-no-room-for-complacency-says-atomic-energy-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/?p=3898","title":{"rendered":"Strike on Chernobyl: \u2018No room for complacency\u2019 says atomic energy watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ukrainian authorities said on Friday a Russian drone strike with a high explosive warhead struck the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant overnight, damaging a protective shield which was built following the 1986 disaster in order to prevent further radiation leaks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Russia has denied any responsibility for the attack. The head of the UN-backed international atomic energy watchdog, IAEA \u2013 which has a team based at the former Soviet nuclear site in Ukraine \u2013 issued a statement confirming that the strike had caused a fire, describing it as \u201ca deeply concerning incident that underlines the persistent risks to nuclear safety during the military conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said the team heard the explosion at 1:50am local time followed by smoke and associated fire visible from their dormitory rooms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cFire safety personnel and vehicles arrived at the scene within minutes to extinguish the blaze, which still could be seen intermittently for several hours afterwards,\u201d Mr. Grossi added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian authorities said on Friday a Russian drone strike with a high explosive warhead struck the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant overnight, damaging a protective shield which was built following the 1986 disaster in order to prevent further radiation leaks. Russia has denied any responsibility for the attack. The head of the UN-backed international atomic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-english-gate"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3900,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions\/3900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}