{"id":453522,"date":"2026-05-17T13:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/453522\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T13:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:26:07","slug":"fire-after-drone-strike-on-uae-nuclear-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/453522\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire after drone strike on UAE nuclear power plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire broke out following a drone strike on a nuclear power plant in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, authorities said, reporting no injuries or impact on radiation levels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Authorities in Abu Dhabi responded to a fire incident that broke out in an electrical generator outside the inner perimeter of the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant in the Al Dhafra Region, caused by a drone strike,&#8221; the Abu Dhabi Media Office wrote in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No injuries were reported, and there was no impact on radiological safety levels,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>The International Atomic Energy Agency \u2060said it has been informed by the UAE that radiation levels at the \u200cBarakah \u2060Nuclear Power Plant remain normal and no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The IAEA is following the \u2060situation \u200cclosely and is inconstant contact with the \u2060UAE authorities, ready to \u2060provide assistance if needed,&#8221; the nuclear watchdog added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire broke out following a drone strike on a nuclear power plant in the emirate of Abu&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-453522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}