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“Closing the sky” or providing a mission from the United Nations, European Union or Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development would ensure the safety of Chernobyl and other Ukrainian nuclear sites, he added.

Prof Corkhill added that while it would be hazardous for people to enter the facility but very little if any radiation is likely to leak outside.

Of wider concern though is the fact that the air conditioning of the safe confinement structure which covers Chernobyl’s reactor 4 which was the source of the nuclear disaster in 1986, won’t be working either. That would lead to condensation which could corrode the £1 billion structure, which in turn would put the decommissioning of the facility on hold for a prolonged period, if not indefinitely.

The town of Slavutych – where most of Chernobyl’s workers live – is also without electricity. Mayor Yuri Fomichev told the BBC that it could lead to the entire town losing water and heating within hours.

The IAEA said radiation levels were normal at Ukraine’s operational nuclear power plants – including Europe’s biggest, Zaporizhzhya, which was seized by Russia last week.



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