Half of Chernobyl nuclear facility staff relieved after some 600 hours at their workplaces

It has been confirmed that half of the duty staff at the Chornobyl (better known by the Russian version of its name, Chernobyl) nuclear site in Ukraine were successfully rotated off-duty on Sunday. The Chornobyl site is currently occupied by invading Russian forces. Chornobyl was seized by the Russians on February 24 and the shift then on duty were unable to be relieved and had remained at their stations ever since. On Sunday, 50 staff, plus nine National Guards (Ukraine’s paramilitary police force) – one of them a cancer patient – and a member of the National Emergency Service were allowed to leave the site. They were replaced by 46 Chornobyl staff who volunteered to relieve them.