{"id":260644,"date":"2026-05-18T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/uncategorized\/2026\/05\/18\/uaes-barakah-nuclear-power-plant-drone-attack-what-you-need-to-know\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T01:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:00:28","slug":"uaes-barakah-nuclear-power-plant-drone-attack-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/military\/2026\/05\/18\/uaes-barakah-nuclear-power-plant-drone-attack-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE&#8217;s Barakah Nuclear Power Plant Drone Attack: What You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Translation result.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ynaobject\" ynaimage ynatype_01><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"yna_img\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-union.tenbizt.com\/contents\/crawler-dev\/image\/2026\/05\/CP-2023-0139\/image-cc73d292-dea3-441e-acbe-6cce4a4c53f5.jpeg\" alt><span class=\"yna_title\">Barakah nuclear power plant, UAE<\/span><span class=\"yna_caption\">[Yonhap News file photo]<\/span><span class=\"yna_description\">[Yonhap News file photo]<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p> The Abu Dhabi Government Media Office said a single drone struck the Barakah nuclear power plant complex in Abu Dhabi on May 17 (local time), igniting a fire. The office said the drone hit a generator located outside the plant\u2019s inner perimeter in the Al Dhafra area and that authorities mounted an immediate response. Officials said there have been no reported casualties so far and confirmed there has been no impact on radiation safety levels. The UAE Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) said the plant\u2019s core systems are operating normally. UAE authorities did not identify who carried out the drone attack. Barakah is the Middle East\u2019s first commercial nuclear power plant, built in Abu Dhabi using Korea Electric Power Corporation\u2019s (KEPCO) domestically developed APR1400 reactor design. #UAE #nuclear #Barakah #attack #drone For Yonhap News TV inquiries and tips: KakaoTalk\/LINE jebo23. Reporter: So Jae-hyung (sojay@yna.co.kr)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drone attack caused a fire at the Barakah nuclear power plant in Abu Dhabi, UAE, but no casualties or radiation issues reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn-union.tenbizt.com\/contents\/crawler-dev\/thumbnail\/2026\/05\/CP-2023-0139\/thumb-787bc05e-0370-4b3a-a82c-f789cf4b0bdc.jpg","footnotes":""},"categories":[278104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UAE&#039;s Barakah Nuclear Power Plant Drone Attack: What You Need to Know<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A drone attack caused a 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