Expert view: Could Kursk be another Chernobyl?

In recent days, the situation around the Kursk nuclear power plant (NPP) has become more complicated. Last Thursday, debris and fragments of downed missiles were found on its complex, including in the radioactive waste processing area. On Friday, a substation was knocked out, leaving the town of Kurchatov, the nearest to the plant, without electricity. Russia’s state atomic energy concern Rosatom warned on Saturday that “at the moment there is still a real danger of strikes and provocations by the Ukrainian army at the nuclear power plant.”