UAE’s Barakah Nuclear Power Plan – Wiki Commons
To launch missile and drone attacks at nuclear power plants is the ultimate irresponsibility.
The cease-fire between the US and Iran, fragile as it is, still holds, but in the meantime, the UAE and Iran have been exchanging strikes back and forth, in a show of instability in the Middle East.
Today, it arises that a drone strike sparked a fire near the UAE’s Barakah nuclear plant.
Emirati officials say that no injuries or radiation leak have been reported.
UAE: drone strike at Barakah NUCLEAR power plant
Fire in electrical generator outside inner perimeter under control
No injuries, ‘no impact on radiological safety levels’ pic.twitter.com/Rp40D0ou0o
— RT (@RT_com) May 17, 2026
Iran targets UAE’s nuclear power plant!!
An electrical generator outside the inner perimeter of the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant in the Al Dhafra Region of Abu Dhabi was hit by a drone.
No injuries were reported, and there was no impact on radiological safety levels.
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— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 17, 2026
Euronews reported:
“A drone strike sparked a fire on the perimeter of the UAE’s Barakah nuclear power plant on Sunday, further straining an already fragile ceasefire linked to the Iran conflict.
The Abu Dhabi Media Office said an electrical generator caught fire outside the main facility. The statement added there was no radiation leak or injuries reported, and confirmed the plant continued operating normally.”
UPDATE: UAE says investigations under way to determine source of attack near Barakah nuclear power plant, adds drones launched from “western border”
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— Al Jazeera Breaking News (@AJENews) May 17, 2026
The western UAE border is the one that faces Iran right across the Strait of Hormuz.
“The IAEA secretary general Rafael Grossi expressed his ‘grave concern about the incident’ and said that ‘military activity that threatens nuclear safety is unacceptable’.
He urged all parties ‘for maximum military restraint near any NPP [Nuclear Power Plant] to avoid the danger of a nuclear accident’.”
UAE’s MoD says a drone struck an electrical generator outside the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant in UAE.
Two others were intercepted.
The UAE adds the UAVs came from the western border — no source identified yet. pic.twitter.com/VwZHmNHIwf
— Clash Report (@clashreport) May 17, 2026
Read more:
UAE Has Been Secretly Striking Iran, Fighting Alongside US and Israel
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