{"id":1389822,"date":"2026-05-04T19:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/drone-hits-radiation-monitoring-laboratory-near-zaporizhzhia-npp-what-is-known\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:01:18","slug":"drone-hits-radiation-monitoring-laboratory-near-zaporizhzhia-npp-what-is-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/drone-hits-radiation-monitoring-laboratory-near-zaporizhzhia-npp-what-is-known\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone hits radiation monitoring laboratory near Zaporizhzhia NPP: what is known"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"635\" data-end=\"803\"><strong>The drone attacked the external radiation monitoring laboratory of the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is located outside the plant&#8217;s perimeter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"805\" data-end=\"830\"> This <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iaeaorg\/status\/2050924082955235612\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">was reported<\/a> by the IAEA.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"832\" data-end=\"931\"> The incident occurred on May 3 and raised concerns about the safety of nuclear facilities in a war zone.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"933\" data-end=\"1070\"> The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that it had received information from the Zaporizhzhia NPP about a drone attack on the laboratory.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1072\" data-end=\"1177\"> According to preliminary data, there are no injuries. It is also currently unknown whether the laboratory itself was damaged.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1179\" data-end=\"1286\"> The IAEA said that their team had requested access to the facility to assess the situation on site.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1288\" data-end=\"1438\"> The agency stressed that any attacks near nuclear facilities pose a serious threat to nuclear safety and could have dangerous consequences.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1288\" data-end=\"1438\"> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/bilia-zaes-zahynuv-vodiy-cherez-udar-drona-shcho-kazhut-u-mahate\/\">a drone killed a driver in a transport workshop near <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant<\/span><\/span> on Monday, April 27. International observers are already investigating the circumstances of the incident.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drone attacked the external radiation monitoring laboratory of the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is located outside the plant&#8217;s perimeter. This was reported by the IAEA. The incident occurred on May 3 and raised concerns about the safety of nuclear facilities in a war zone. The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":221255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873],"class_list":["post-1389822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}