Another 4 yrs needed to fully restore Chernobyl radiation shield

INSIDE an abandoned control room at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hardhat gazed at a grey wall of seemingly endless dials, screens and gauges that were supposed to prevent disaster.

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Workers stand next to the debris and damaged panels at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant following a drone attack earlier this year | AFP

In February, a Russian drone hit and left a large hole in the New Safe Confinement (NSC), the outer of two radiation shells covering the remnants of the nuclear power plant.