Rebuilding Ukraine: Germany allocates another €1 mln for Ukraine's nuclear safety
The contribution will bring Germany's total funding for the agency's work in Ukraine to 8.3 million euros. The new grant will support IAEA operations as wartime threats continue to endanger Ukraine's nuclear facilities.
The Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant remains a key concern for Berlin. Since the start of the full-scale war, drone attacks have repeatedly threatened Europe's largest nuclear power plant. These threats have forced the plant to rely on emergency generators.
Germany also plans to urge the international community to increase support for restoring the protective structure at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The structure sustained damage in early 2025.
Berlin has already announced its readiness to provide 50 million euros for repairs.
With support from international partners, the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant has commissioned a new 2 MW solar power plant. It will supply electricity to the plant's critical infrastructure. This includes the New Safe Confinement, radioactive waste management facilities, and spent nuclear fuel storage facilities.
Background
At around 2:10 a.m. on June 7 this year, a Russian attack drone struck the Centralized Spent Fuel Storage Facility in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. The strike partially destroyed the container receiving building and sparked a fire covering approximately 40 square meters. Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze.
Ukraine's Security Service released photographic evidence of the Russian Geran-2 attack drone strike on the Centralized Spent Fuel Storage Facility in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. Meanwhile, Ukraine's nuclear power operator Energoatom described the attack as another act of nuclear terror.
Earlier in 2025, overnight into February 14, a Russian attack drone carrying a high-explosive warhead struck the shelter that protects the world from radiation from the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant's destroyed reactor No. 4.
The IAEA reported that the drone strike left a hole approximately six meters in diameter. Flammable material in the roof cladding fueled the fire. Plant officials told experts they planned to install additional sensors near the impact site to measure radiation dose rates and aerosol concentrations.
On March 7, Ukraine's State Agency for Exclusion Zone Management announced that crews had extinguished the remaining smoldering fires at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
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