At least it happened, again, ~~after~~ before the damage was fully repaired from the last time it happened.
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masklinn4 days ago
+42
The damage from last time is not repaired let alone fully. The fire was contained and stopped but the NSC is compromised and needs to be repaired which will take a while, the decommissioning timeline has been pushed back years.
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RyanNotBrian3 days ago
+3
This can be a little misleading.
The breach has been repaired, no radiation is getting out. This is what most people are concerned about.
But you're right, they haven't completed the internal repairs needed to dismantle the old reactor.
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pyggi3 days ago
+2
There have been temporary repairs but I think the post above is referring to longer term repairs needed after damage from the first breach
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RyanNotBrian3 days ago
+1
Yes, that's true. The long term damage is bad because they can't remove the radiation source.
But without context it sounds like there's a gaping hole spewing rads back into the world.
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Radarker4 days ago
+3
Breath deep everyone!
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[deleted]5 days ago
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Tachou543215 days ago
+12
You will get downvoted, because it’s a trash take.
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supercyberlurker5 days ago
+609
Is there a good reason they coded that as “drone crash started a fire” and not just “drone attack started a fire”?
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td1920205 days ago
+327
I'm gonna assume that Chernobyl was not the intended target and that it instead crashed into the area. The article does mention recent attacks, and the previous attacks on the area.
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Bowdlerizer695 days ago
+147
Must've accidentally flown into an anomaly.
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Gullex5 days ago
+79
Get out of here, stalker.
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KHRAKE4 days ago
+21
За Моноліт!!
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pepsandeggs4 days ago
+15
I said come in! Don’t stand there
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Slinov5 days ago
+19
One of those annoying lightning ball motherfuckers who chase you
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withoutapaddle4 days ago
+10
Gotta remove your artifacts!
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Seanchad4 days ago
+10
Wait, is this legitimately the way to avoid those things?
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DuskShy4 days ago
+5
Yea lol but it'll still zap you if you touch it
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withoutapaddle3 days ago
+1
Yes, they only chase people with artifacts in their s****! Good hunting, stalker.
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Ulti4 days ago
+5
Deggy's going to have to go in there and find the flight recorder data...
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A1Chaining4 days ago
+2
Don’t let the door hit you.
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rd46354 days ago
+1
"Blob shaped anomaly "
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ASValourous4 days ago
+1
Quick get a Skif in there
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factotum-5 days ago
+29
What was the intended target? An apartment building in Kharkiv? These psychopaths are capable of anything
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TamaDarya3 days ago
+1
>no comment on the origin or type of the device
Non-zero chance it was an outbound Ukrainian drone.
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agaloch23145 days ago
+16
Chernobyl has been attacked several times. It’s not an accident.
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rjginca5 days ago
+16
Chernobyl was absolutely attacked and the damage has been deemed irreparable.
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tdgros5 days ago
+5
It's a forest fire
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barra_giano4 days ago
+8
It's a radioactive forest fire.
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Late_Blooomer4 days ago
+3
Radioactive fire tornado would be interesting 🤨
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Ambitious_Path75814 days ago
+4
This timelines fucked off enough as it is..
But man that would be cool
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BakerOne4 days ago
+3
Russian has targeted the dome multiple times and I wouldn't put it past the inhumans to cause wild fire to put more people at risk of radiation yet again.
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EntityLtdCo4 days ago
+4
Just remember that when the chernoble event occurred these people denied that a melt down was possible, trapped the civilians and scientists at the reactor, severed communications with the outside world, and began gaslighting other countries who thought something was up. Now, they have clearly targeted the dome with 'accidental' strikes to restart the runaway reaction. They are not to be trusted.
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RyanNotBrian3 days ago
+2
This isn't true, they can't restart the runaway reaction.
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Kaellian4 days ago
+8
Fangorn Forest aside, forest rarely make good military targets.
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MyDumLemon4 days ago
+4
in this case it aerosolizes the soil contaminants; so not a bad target depending on your objectives.
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jews4beer5 days ago
+26
>The Chernobyl exclusion zone is frequently overflown by Russian drones en route to Kyiv and other targets within Ukraine.
So I mean yea it was an attack. But it's possible the drone itself malfunctioned or was shot down. The article doesn't say, but it's not like the presence of the drone itself doesn't imply it was an attack already. And there is the possibility it was a Ukrainian drone also. That's not to place blame for the situation they're in, but mistakes do happen.
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Middle_Profit10574 days ago
For Ukraine that would mean flying drone through Belarus which is not something that happens
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NydusR4 days ago
+3
We didn't start the fire?
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bluesam34 days ago
Presumably because it didn't land where it was supposed to.
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MattyTangle5 days ago
-24
It probably means it was one of Ukraine's, en route to Moscow
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Friendly_Soil66175 days ago
+15
Of course, Ukraine is constantly shelling itself. And just recently, it even launched a Shahed drone at the containment structure at the nuclear power plant. Bad, bad Ukraine! /s
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-21
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Friendly_Soil66175 days ago
+9
Today, 7 May 2026, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Chargé d’Affaires of the Embassy of Russia to present a note of protest condemning the incident that occurred earlier this morning on the territory of the Republic of Latvia, when several unmanned aerial vehicles entered the municipalities of Rēzekne, Balvi and Ludza from the airspace of the Russian Federation.
The representative of the Russian Embassy was informed that Russia, by waging a war of aggression against Ukraine, is creating risks of security incidents across the wider region. https://www.mfa.gov.lv/en/article/ministry-foreign-affairs-expresses-protest-russia-over-drone-incident-latgale-morning
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Friendly_Soil66175 days ago
+5
Ask the ruzzians why Ukrainian drones flew from their territory to Latvia. These aren't missing strikes; the ruzzians deliberately redirected the drones toward Latvia from their own territory.
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green_flash5 days ago
+203
Bit of a clickbait title. The exclusion zone is fairly large, about 1,000 square miles. Forest fires happen quite regularly and are dealt with by firefighters. It's not the unprecedented apocalyptic scenario some make it out to be.
Right now, it's also raining in the area around Chernobyl: https://www.accuweather.com/en/ua/kyiv/324505/weather-radar/324505
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Vangovibin4 days ago
+15
“It’s raining in Chernobyl” is like “it’s snowing on Mt Fuji” in that it’s 7 syllables so you can use it in haikus.
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fleshfinder4204 days ago
-38
Truth. Chernobyl isn’t even an active nuclear site either, and what’s left is encased in concrete and steel. A fire isn’t gonna do shit
Your downvotes dont negate what I said. Do your homework on Chernobyl. There’s a great channel on YT called the Chernobyl guy or something and he breaks down almost every aspect of the disaster
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TauCabalander4 days ago
+47
The soil is contaminated. That's why there is an exclusion zone.
Raising dust and smoke from contaminated trees and plants is not a good thing.
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fleshfinder4204 days ago
-12
There’s no cities within at least 20km of Chernobyl, it will be ok.
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TauCabalander3 days ago
+5
Smoke travels a lot further than that, and can even go global.
example: Americans are all too familiar with the fires in Canada.
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GoldGlove27203 days ago
+4
Wildfire smoke can travel across the globe…
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fleshfinder4203 days ago
-7
That’s true but fires don’t generate radioactivity, there’s concentrations in the soil but this isn’t the first or last wildfire to hit Chernobyl
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RyanNotBrian3 days ago
+5
The others are right.
Plenty draw the radioactive particles out if the soil and store them. When the tree burns, the smoke contains the particles and spread very far on the wind or get under the upper atmosphere.
Sure, it's not as bad as the original disaster, but that was off-the-charts bad.
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GoldGlove27203 days ago
+3
No shit fires don’t generate radioactivity. No one is saying that. When there is a wildfire smoke carries radioactive particles to other areas.
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fleshfinder4203 days ago
-2
Yeah obviously but people are acting like this is some big deal. Wildfires happen every year dude
-2
Resident_Trouble_5795 days ago
+156
That’s not what we meant by celebrating Chernobyl’s 40th anniversary. We did not need fireworks near nuclear facilities people. What’s next? A pool party at Fukushima?
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NotSoAwfulName5 days ago
+25
Wait, whose celebrating that?
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Crumblycheese4 days ago
+26
I doubt it's a celebration but more a remembrance type thing?
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ThatGuyWhoKnocks4 days ago
+1
Homer Simpson
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humboldt774 days ago
+1
D’oh.
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the_millenial_falcon4 days ago
+19
Not a good day for a roadside picnic.
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DarkFireFenrir4 days ago
+23
Okay, who was the joker who put STALKER on their 2026 bingo card?
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RatCoward3 days ago
+1
А ну, чики-брики и в дамки!
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frugaleringenieur5 days ago
+59
Nuclear Fire Tornado with Radioactive Rain was not on my Bingo Card for 2026 (that only said Nuke itself)
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Kenny7415 days ago
+7
Coming in from 2025 that's pretty much word for word what mine had.
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Quirky_Potential_6624 days ago
+4
I’ve played this game. It’s not fun.
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Wurm425 days ago
+20
>The Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve (CREBR) wrote in a Telegram post that around 12 square kilometres of land, located to the south-east of the Ukrainian town of Chernobyl and the nuclear plant’s former cooling ponds, are burning due to a drone crash – but didn’t give details on the type or origin of the device. As of Friday afternoon, some 331 people and 75 pieces of equipment are involved in the emergency response.
>“It’s really big. Guys who are working on [the] fire line are breathing air with high concentration of radionuclides,” says Denys Vyshnevskiy at the CREBR. “After the shift, they check concentration radionuclides in the body.”
South-east of the town of Chernobyl is near the river, that should make it easier to get the fire under control.
Has anyone seen a source with more details about the amount of radiation being released?
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tdgros5 days ago
+19
the first sentence after your quote is "Vyshnevskiy says that 5 to 10 kilometres from the fire, the radiation levels are normal, and there is little risk of contamination outside the exclusion zone."
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jdorje4 days ago
+9
Radiophobia is understandable, even if super wrong.
The health impact of breathing in radiation from a forest fire is nonexistent. The health impact of firefighters - already highly exposed to toxic smoke in their jobs - breathing in a lot of forest fire smoke can be... almost any level depending on how much.
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SmokeInABottle4 days ago
+1
What about the radiation levels in the f****** smoke though and when that rains down?
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ppitm4 days ago
+7
> Has anyone seen a source with more details about the amount of radiation being released?
Negligible. The Red Forest (most contaminated part of the Zone) burned down in 2020 and radiation levels barely increased. It's not really a threat.
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Lord_Foosh4 days ago
+4
Eyes up stalkers
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friedchickensundae14 days ago
+4
Its all good everybody, I got this. I've got 50 hours in stalker 2
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Intrepid_Top_23004 days ago
+5
Use big fans. Blow it all east into Russia.
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ChornobylChili4 days ago
+3
Can I please read some good news?
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BearButts9094 days ago
+2
In this timeline? Doubtful
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Grandheretic3 days ago
+1
No. The answer is no.
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NA_0_10_never_forget4 days ago
+3
Reminder that the drone attack on the Chernobyl NSC (by Russia) recently set back the plant's complete cleanup from "a few years" to "several decades if we're lucky". It is underreported how much damage was caused
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PonasSumushtinis5 days ago
+7
Oh cool. So we have new virus going around, insane amount of ticks that can end you, possible ww3, and now this? Oh goodie.
Update: Apperently aliens are real too now as per released files. Oh good.
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ridicalis5 days ago
+11
What's this about ticks now?
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Different_Victory_895 days ago
-4
Tick bites are up 600%!
Where have u been? Under a rock?
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ridicalis5 days ago
+24
Why, are they under rocks too? Is no place safe anymore?!
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hhuzar4 days ago
+4
I should've invested in ticks.
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PloppyTheSpaceship4 days ago
+2
I should've invested in rocks.
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snappy7733 days ago
+1
1980s called. They don’t recommend this.
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Warstorm19935 days ago
+12
You also forgot the coming Super El Nino and incoming Energy shock. This is fine
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PonasSumushtinis5 days ago
+1
Oh yeah, this is absolutelly fine.
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FadedP0rp0ise5 days ago
+3
I personally believe that ticks are mother nature fighting back at us. I live in rural PA and I’ve never even seen a tick until about 2016. (34 y/o)
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PotentialIncident75 days ago
+1
Ticks? Where are those ticks?
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PonasSumushtinis5 days ago
Yeah "lone star" ticks.
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Doctor_Saved5 days ago
+1
Good thing its the Exclusion zone.
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SharkCream4 days ago
+1
The one way to reduce radiation that they didn't want you to know about
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CocconutMonkey4 days ago
+1
I thought we had a cease-fire in effect...
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damagedone374 days ago
+1
Only 3.6 Roetengen…
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Fearless-Ad28194 days ago
+1
The possibility that the fire smoke is radioactive... Hopefully, there won't be much wind.
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Rosebunse4 days ago
+1
Before the war there was talk of re-opening more of the city. It was so close to being relatively safe. Now it will be decades.
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tnypissdkumquat4 days ago
+1
Russia didn’t learn anything
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EntityLtdCo4 days ago
+1
The fire! Its using landmines to defend itself somehow!
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Competitive_Yam_873 days ago
+1
Can this hurt us in Europe?
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AvailableSubstance533 days ago
-1
Good. Slava Ukraine
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Creative_Can_20513 days ago
+1
Cyka blyatt
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Unique-Ladder-19904 days ago
it must suck to be in the facility right now. or to be someone trying to stop the fire
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400footceiling4 days ago
Great. Thanks Russia. Responsible for more deaths to come.
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mfb-4 days ago
+1
This isn't going to kill anyone (at least not from to radiation - fire is hazardous as usual).
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NoSubstance52865 days ago
-3
Current weather maps indicate that winds are blowing towards Northeast. Resident of Homel should hold their breath.
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