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Fact Check: Can Nuclear Waste Be Recycled?.The IAEA says that the region of Chernobyl can now be visited, even the exclusion zone and some residents of the area have returned to their homes following the accident which took place in 1986. Radioactive isotopes still linger, albeit at tolerable levels for limited exposure times. All reactors at the site are now closed, but some remained active as late as the year 2000. The site of the Chernobyl power plant sits in an exclusion zone with a near 19-mile radius, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This is one of the most serious threats to Europe today.' He said: 'After a completely senseless Russian attack in this direction, it is impossible to say that Chernobyl is safe. Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said that control of the Chornobyl zone was seized by Russian forces after a 'fierce battle,' CNN reported.

Russian forces stormed the plant on the first day of the country's invasion of Ukraine and are holding hostages, State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management spokesperson Yevgeniya Kuznetsovа, told CNN. Russian forces have taken control of the site of the world's worst, and most infamous, nuclear disaster, the Chernobyl power plant in northern Ukraine.

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