If most of the French news is swept away by the result of the presidential election and the next legislative elections to come, eastern Europe is still plagued by armed conflicts. In a context of unprecedented tensions between Moscow and the West, Sergei Lavrov, head of Russian diplomacy, warned of the “real” danger of a third world war. And even if the latter claims to continue peace negotiations with Ukraine, the country is still paying a heavy price for the battles led by Vladimir Putin’s men.
A level of radioactivity “unnatural“detected at the Chernobyl site
Traveling to Ukraine on the land of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) testified to an anomaly. “The level of radioactivity at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine is “abnormal”, estimated“, Tuesday, April 26, 2022, Rafael Grossi, on site visit. In 1986, the plant was the site of the worst disaster in the history of civil nuclear power. “The level of radioactivity is, I would say, abnormal“, he told reporters at the site, which had been occupied by the Russian military between February 24 and the end of March.We follow all this on a daily basis“, he added.
“Levels [de radioactivité] increased at times when the Russians were bringing heavy equipment into the area and when they left, explained Rafael Grossi who is accompanied on site by a team of experts “to deliver vital equipment” (dosimeters, protective suits, etc.), to carry out “radiological and other checks”. These experts must “repair the remote monitoring systems, which stopped transmitting data to the headquarters” of the IAEA in Vienna shortly after the start of the war, he said.
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