ICYMI: Russia holds 100 workers and 200 guards captive at Chernobyl nuclear site
The workers have some food but are rationing it to ensure it lasts however long they are forced to remain there, thereports. Cooks are making batches of bread and porridge for the one meal a day that the trapped people are allowing themselves.
Radiation levels are not a danger these days, but the levels did spike in the area during the takeover last month because of heavy military equipment disturbing the contaminated dust and the increased air pollution in the plant’s 32-kilometre exclusion radius.Close to the reactor, a dose would be about three units — called microsieverts — every hour. But on the day it was overtaken, the reading jumped to 65 microSv/hr.
“All the staff are super exhausted and desperate,” the relative of one employee told the BBC. “They doubt that anyone cares about them. Right now they don’t see anyone doing anything to rescue them.”— is located about 130km north of the capital, Kyiv, which is the main target of the Russian troops.
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