Russian forces who occupied the Chernobyl nuclear power plant took radioactive “souvenirs” with them before evacuating the area, according to Ukraine’s state nuclear company.
Russian troops pulled out of Chernobyl on April 1, five weeks after seizing it, but not before they reportedly engaged in several types of reckless behavior around the facility’s toxic Red Forest area.
“These ‘heroes’ will take Darwin’s prizes even from those doomed racists who inhaled the dust of the Red Forest while in it,” Ukraine’s state-run nuclear company, Energoatom, said via a Telegram statement Saturday.
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Energoatom also stated that Russian forces “unauthorizedly entered a repository of ionizing radiation sources” and “stole and damaged 133 sources with a total activity of about 7 million becquerels,” which is “comparable to 700 kg of radioactive waste with the presence of beta and gamma radiation.”
The “deadly” items were taken as “souvenirs,” Energoatom said, citing Ukraine’s state zone management agency. The company warned, however, that Russian troops may be in for a surprise, because “carrying such a souvenir with you for two weeks will inevitably lead to radiation burns, radiation sickness and irreversible processes in the body.”
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In March, hundreds of Russian soldiers were evacuated from the Chernobyl nuclear facility and taken to a medical facility in Belarus after suffering symptoms of “acute radiation sickness,” according to a report.
