Barakah Nuclear Power Plant reactor containment domes, Al Dhafra Region, Abu Dhabi, UAE — the Arab world's first operational multi-unit nuclear facility

Iran Hit Barakah Nuclear Plant. No Gulf Reactor Has a Shield Now.

Iran's drone hit Barakah nuclear plant on May 17 — the first attack on an active Gulf atomic facility and a threshold the ceasefire was supposed to hold.
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