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A man walks on a pedestrian crossing point near the Dnipro river and Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant on the other side in Nikopol, Ukraine, Aug, 22, 2022. Ukrainians are once again anxious and alarmed about the fate of a nuclear power plant in a land that was home to the world’s worst atomic accident in 1986 at Chernobyl. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, has been occupied by Russian forces since early in the war, and continued fighting nearby has heightened fears of a catastrophe that could affect nearby towns in southern Ukraine or beyond. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Ukrainian nuclear plant temporarily cut off from power grid

By Frank Jordans and Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

A man walks on a pedestrian crossing point near the Dnipro river and Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant on the other side in Nikopol, Ukraine, Aug, 22, 2022. Ukrainians are once again anxious and alarmed about the fate of a nuclear power plant in a land that was home to the world’s worst atomic accident in 1986 at Chernobyl. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, has been occupied by Russian forces since early in the war, and continued fighting nearby has heightened fears of a catastrophe that could affect nearby towns in southern Ukraine or beyond. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Ukrainian fears run high over fighting near nuclear plant

By Frank Jordans and Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

Ukrainian soldiers stand guard in front of the 'sarcophagus' steel structure, top left, that shelters the reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Nuclear chief: Russia’s Chernobyl seizure risked accident

By Oleksandr Stashevskyi and Cara Anna - Associated Press

Ukrainian soldiers carry a body of a civilian killed by the Russian forces over the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes including almost 4 million from their country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Russians leave Chernobyl; Ukraine braces for renewed attacks

By Nebi Qena and Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

In this March 23, 2016, file photo, a worker checks the radiation level on barrels in a storage of nuclear waste taken from the 4th unit destroyed by explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Chernobyl, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Nuclear watchdog sees no critical impact, despite Ukraine’s fears over Chernobyl

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

An operator's arm-chair covered with plastic sits in an empty control room of the 3rd reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, on April 20, 2018. Russia’s attack on a nuclear power plant in Ukraine has revived the fears of people across Europe who remember the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Russia’s nuclear plant attack revives Chernobyl disaster fears

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

Guards of Honor march to lay a flower wreath at Chernobyl's victim monument in Ukraine's capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 26, 2021. April 26 marks the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. A reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded on April 26, 1986, leading to an explosion and the subsequent fire spewed a radioactive plume over much of northern Europe. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine opens new nuclear waste site at Chernobyl

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko speaks with local residents in the town of Bragin, some 360 km ( 225 miles) south-east of Minsk, Belarus, Monday, April 26, 2021. Alexander Lukashenko took part in a requiem rally on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. (Maxim Guchek/BelTA Pool Photo via AP)

Police in Belarus block rally marking Chernobyl anniversary

Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2009 file photo, British actor Paul Ritter. Ritter, who appeared in the “Harry Potter” franchise and played a key figure behind nuclear disaster in “Chernobyl,” has died aged 54. Ritter agent said the actor died at home on the evening of Monday, April 5, 2021 and had been suffering from a brain tumour. Ritter was a familiar face to British television viewers and theatregoers, famous as eccentric patriarch Martin Goodman in the Chanel 4 sitcom “Friday Night Dinner.” He also played ill-fated nuclear engineer Anatoly Dyatlov in the HBO drama “Chernobyl” and the wizard Eldred Worple in “Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince,” and appeared as a devious political operative in the James Bond film “Quantum of Solace.” (Zak Hussein/PA via AP, FIle)

‘Chernobyl’ and ‘Harry Potter’ actor Paul Ritter dies at 54

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

In this April 2, 2020, file photo, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, who is now serving as national defense production act policy coordinator, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Peter Navarro blames China for U.S. coronavirus deaths from ‘biological Chernobyl’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

This photo released by Simon &amp; Schuster shows &quot;Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster&quot; by Adam Higginbotham, winner of the William E. Colby Award, given for an outstanding book on military or intelligence history. (Simon &amp; Schuster via AP)

Book on Chernobyl nuclear accident wins $5,000 prize

Associated Press

In this photo taken on Tuesday, July 16, 2019, workers walk past a part of the Ignalina nuclear power plant (NPP) in Visaginas some 160km (100 miles) northeast of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania. The HBO TV series “Chernobyl” featuring Soviet era nuclear nightmares is drawing tourists to the atomic filming locations in Lithuania. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

‘Chernobyl’ miniseries sends curious tourists to Lithuania

By LIUDAS DAPKUS - Associated Press

FILE - This June 1, 2019, file photo shows a view of the New Safe Confinement (NSC) movable enclosure at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine. A new structure built to confine the Chernobyl nuclear reactor at the center of the world's worst nuclear disaster has been previewed for the media. (Sergei Supinsky/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Ukraine: Chernobyl’s radioactive dust shelter unveiled

Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Midnight in Chernobyl’ by Adam Higginbotham

By Joseph C. Goulden

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Chernobyl’ by Sherhii Plokhy

By Joseph C. Goulden

HBO announces five-part miniseries on Chernobyl accident

Associated Press

Ukrainian corruption casts a nuclear pall over all of Europe

The Washington Times

Hisako Sakiyama, a medical doctor and representative of the 3.11 Fund for Children With Thyroid Cancer, speaks to reporters in Tokyo, Friday, March 31, 2017. Sakiyama, who has sat on government panels to investigate the Fukushima disaster, says a child who was 4 at the time of the disaster , has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and that case is missing from the official government records. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)

Fukushima 4-year-old missing in Japan thyroid-cancer records

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Tuesday, April 5, 2016, Natalya Vetrova, one year old, sleeps holding a bottle with fresh cow milk at home in Zalyshany, 53 km (32 miles) southwest of the destroyed reactor of the Chernobyl plant, Ukraine. Her village is in one of the sections of Ukraine contaminated by radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)

Ukraine children eat food tainted by Chernobyl

By Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press