According to an alarming story by Science late last week, radioactive materials have gone missing from the Chernobyl disaster site that experts say could be used to make a dirty bomb.
It's not clear if the looters were Russian operatives or if they took radioactive materials from a lab near the site.
That's not all the dangerous stuff that's missing. The director of the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants told the magazine that he had lost contact with a lab that held powerful sources of radiation.
This is even more bad news after a chaotic and deadly invasion that illustrated the immense danger and uncertainty involved in an armed conflict between two nuclear powers. The Chernobyl disaster site has become a flashpoint due to Russia cutting power to the nuclear power plants in Ukraine.
The drama shows the danger of a world with more and more nuclear material.
There are a lot of radioactive sources that are not on anyone's radar, according to a nuclear security expert.
Russian astronauts board the space station with a Ukrainian flag.
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