Researchers hoping to identify bacteria capable of consuming radioactive waste at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant fear their work has been destroyed by Russian troops
Technology
22 April 2022
Facilities at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine have been looted ISPNPP
Researchers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine had been looking for bacteria to eat radioactive waste – but they now fear that their work was irreparably lost during the Russian invasion of the facility.
Anatolii Nosovskyi, director of the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants (ISPNPP) – which carries out research in several labs at Chernobyl – said in a letter to the global scientific community, seen by New Scientist, that his staff are still unable to …
