Putin’s war is raising risk of another Chernobyl, says historian who inspired hit TV show


Serhii Plokhy’s account of the 1986 disaster stunned readers and TV audiences. Now his new book warns that the threat of nuclear terror has only increased. Plokhy’s book details how up until now the IAEA has been powerless in mitigating these threats – and makes the argument that “until we find out how to protect the existing nuclear power plants, we have no business at all in building new ones.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/25/putins-war-is-raising-risk-of-another-chernobyl-says-historian-who-inspired-hit-tv-show?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-3