Drone strike damages spent-fuel facility near Chornobyl, Ukraine says
What's new: The IAEA said a fuel-reception building was significantly damaged, but radiation stayed at normal background levels.
A drone strike damaged a spent nuclear fuel facility near Ukraine's Chornobyl power plant, Ukrainian officials said Sunday, in an attack that triggered a fire but no injuries or radiation spike. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia used a Shahed drone to hit the site, about 15 kilometers from the Chornobyl plant. The International Atomic Energy Agency said a fuel-reception building near where large amounts of nuclear material are stored was significantly damaged and that inspectors would visit the site. Energoatom said no spent fuel was inside the damaged building at the time. Russia had not publicly commented on the allegation. The site is near the plant where the 1986 reactor explosion and meltdown caused the world's worst nuclear disaster.