Dome at Risk

The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that Chernobyl’s protective structure lost its primary safety functions after a drone strike in February. The dome, designed to last a century and contain radioactive dust from the 1986 accident, now requires urgent repairs. It is the kind of event that brings classroom physics into real life with the subtle reminder: “yes, this is why we study these things.”

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