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A huge section of roofing covering part of the defunct nuclear power plant at Chernobyl has collapsed under the weight of snow.

Officials immediately denied any threat of radiation even though the accident involved a cover on part of the workings of Reactor Number 4 which exploded in 1986 in the world’s worst atomic disaster.

‘There are no safety hazards. The radiation situation at the plant and in the exclusion zone is normal. No one was hurt,’ said the administration at the former Soviet plant.

‘It cannot affect the radiation background. The situation is not even classified as an emergency,’ said Dmitry Bobro, the first deputy director of the state agency for the management of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, a no-man’s land surrounding the power station.

The sarcophagus structure covering the reactor, which is in the process of being replaced, was not hit by the roof collapse…

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