Nuclear Power Plant
Chornobyl central spent-fuel facility — drone strike on reception building
7 June 2026 · approximately 02:09 local
Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine (approximate location)
What happened
A drone struck the container and fuel-reception building at Ukraine's Centralized Spent Fuel Storage Facility in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, causing a fire and significant structural damage to the facade, walls, main staircase and the IAEA safeguards office. Energoatom said no spent fuel was inside the struck building; the IAEA reported that loaded storage casks were a few hundred metres away. The fire was extinguished, no one was injured, radiation levels remained normal and the IAEA found no radioactive contamination. The marker is approximate because the exact impact coordinates were not publicly established in the cited reporting.
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Infrastructure
- Nuclear Power Plant
- Latitude
- 51.3400°
- Longitude
- 30.0800°
Attribution
Attributed to Russian drone, according to Ukraine and facility operator Energoatom
The IAEA independently inspected the impact and damage but did not publicly assign responsibility in the cited assessment.