‼️ This is a very dangerous situation. Nothing like this has ever happened before. This nuclear power plant is the largest in Europe. Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which has been under Russian occupation since March 2022, has been disconnected from the power supply for more than a week. IAEA... Director General Rafael Grossi stressed that this situation is unstable in terms of nuclear safety, since "in case of a complete blackout with no off-site power and no EDGs operating, the nuclear fuel could melt if power could not be restored in time." According to Ukraine’s state nuclear operator Energoatom, this is already the tenth blackout at the occupied Zaporizhzhia plant. At present, the plant is running on diesel generators. "Russia is doing absolutely nothing to fix the situation or to allow Ukrainian specialists to restore external power to the plant, which under normal conditions should operate without interruption. Russia is deliberately creating the threat of radiation incidents, taking advantage, unfortunately, of the weak position of the IAEA and its Director General Rafael Grossi, as well as the distraction of global attention. To resolve the situation, weak and half-measures will not work. What is needed is strong action and corresponding pressure on Russia to protect lives," President Zelenskyy said. Moreover, yesterday’s targeted Russian strike on one of Ukraine’s power substations in Slavutych caused a blackout lasting more than three hours at facilities of the former Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. "This includes, in particular, the New Safe Confinement that protects the environment from the remains of the plant’s fourth reactor after the 1986 explosion, as well as radioactive debris and dust. It also includes the spent nuclear fuel storage facility, which holds 80% of all the spent fuel accumulated during the plant’s operation - a total of more than 3,250 tons of spent fuel assemblies. The Russians could not have been unaware that a strike on facilities in Slavutych would have such consequences for Chernobyl. This was a deliberate attack, in which Russia used more than 20 drones. Some of them were shot down, but the strike was deliberately organized in a wave of drones to make defending the site more difficult," the President of Ukraine said.show more

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