Drone Hits Chernobyl nuclear plant

A Drone Hits Chornobyl Nuclear Plant, experts reveal Radiation levels are normal.  A drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of Ukraine’s Chornobyl nuclear plant early Friday.

Punching a hole in the structure and briefly starting a fire, in an attack Kyiv blamed on Russia. The Kremlin denied it was responsible.

Radiation levels at the shuttered plant in the Kyiv region — the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident — have not increased, according to the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency, which said the strike did not breach the plant’s inner containment shell.

Drone Hits Chernobyl Nuclear Plant

The IAEA did not attribute blame, saying only that its team stationed at the site heard an explosion and was informed that a drone had struck the shell.

Fighting around nuclear power plants has repeatedly raised fears of a nuclear catastrophe during three years of war.

In a country where many vividly remember the 1986 Chornobyl disaster, which killed at least 30 people and spewed radioactive fallout over much of the Northern Hemisphere.

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is Europe’s biggest, has occasionally been hit by drones during the war without causing significant damage.