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IAEA loses contact with safeguards monitoring systems at Chernobyl – Metro US

IAEA loses contact with safeguards monitoring systems at Chernobyl

FILE PHOTO: A general view shows a New Safe Confinement
FILE PHOTO: A general view shows a New Safe Confinement structure over the old sarcophagus covering the damaged fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in Chernobyl

VIENNA (Reuters) – Systems monitoring nuclear material at the radioactive waste facilities at Chernobyl in Ukraine, which were taken over by Russian forces last month, have stopped transmitting data to the U.N. nuclear watchdog, it said on Tuesday.

“The Director General … indicated that remote data transmission from safeguards monitoring systems installed at the Chornobyl NPP had been lost,” the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement.

Safeguards refers to the field of IAEA work aimed at keeping track of nuclear material.

(Reporting by Francois Murphy; Editing by Chris Reese)