Staff at the U.S.-funded atomic research lab in northeastern Ukraine spend their days patching up the facility, which has been badly damaged by repeated Russian strikes.
Mykola Shulga, general director of the National Scientific Center"Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology" shows a destruction of the nuclear laboratory building after a Russian attach in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, May 18, 2023. More than a year after missiles first hit, the wind batters boarded-up windows and exposed insulation flaps in the wind. Debris has been heaped in piles, and rocket parts sit near craters up to 2.5 meters deep.
Mykola Shulga, general director of the institute’s National Science Center, said the damage is “significant — but we are doing repairs on our own.” Ukraine’s nuclear inspectorate said shelling last year damaged the facility’s heating, cooling and ventilation systems. An electrical substation and diesel generators were destroyed, leaving the site without electricity for a time.
In communist times, the Kharkiv facility's research helped develop nuclear weapons, making it a Soviet equivalent of Los Alamos in the United States. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the U.S. agreed to fund Ukrainian nuclear research in exchange for Ukraine getting rid of its stockpiles of nuclear bomb-making material.
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