{"id":129089,"date":"2025-03-07T20:46:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T17:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/129089\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"fire-extinguished-at-chernobyl-nuclear-plant-after-february-14-attack","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/129089\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire extinguished at Chernobyl nuclear plant after February 14 attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>March 7, <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Ukrainian Environment Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk has announced that emergency workers have extinguished a fire at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant\u2019s confinement shelter at noon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire started after a drone attacked the plant in the early hours of February 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hrynchuk said it was necessary to conduct &#8220;high-quality analysis&#8221; of the damage to the outer cladding and restore it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She thanked rescuers and Chernobyl zone workers for their professionalism, as well as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, all contributing countries, the International Atomic Energy Agency and other members of the international community for help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To extinguish smoldering fires, rescuers cut and partially opened the shelter\u2019s structures to monitor it from the air, Ukraine\u2019s State Agency on Exclusion Zone Management reported, noting that the radiation level at the power plant has not increased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agency said that the attack damaged the shelter\u2019s outer and inner cladding and its main cranes, affecting its safe operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On February 14, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the shelter was hit by a Russian drone. Russia denied any claims it attacked the Chernobyl plant, noting its military does not strike Ukrainian nuclear infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded in the early hours of April 26, 1986. The New Safe Confinement around the destroyed reactor was built in 2016 to prevent the release of radiation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the plant is located in Ukraine, about 70 percent of the radioactive fallout landed in Belarus in 1986, heavily contaminating one-fourth of the country, one-fifth of its agricultural land and affecting at least 7 million people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/127395\/\">Ukraine keeps extinguishing smoldering fires at Chenobyl shelter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 7, Pozirk. Ukrainian Environment Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk has announced that emergency workers have extinguished a fire at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant\u2019s confinement shelter at noon. The fire started after a drone attacked the plant in the early hours of February 14. Hrynchuk said it was necessary to conduct &#8220;high-quality analysis&#8221; of the damage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":129032,"template":"","rubric":[16,30,15],"class_list":["post-129089","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-security","rubric-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fire extinguished at Chernobyl nuclear plant after February 14 attack | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"March 7, Pozirk. 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