2024-08-12 05:46:59
A fire broke out on Sunday in a cooling tower at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, which is controlled by Russian troops. Moscow and Kyiv blame each other. The fire was extinguished that night.
According to Russian reports, a fire broke out in the cooling system at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Enerhodar, southern Ukraine, this afternoon. The fire was completely extinguished that night, an official appointed by Russia told Telegram. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), whose experts are based at the nuclear power plant, said there were “no reported implications for nuclear safety.” Moscow sees the Ukrainian attack the governor of the region, Yevgeny Balitsky, who appointed Moscow, said earlier, according to. the state agency TASS Ukrainian attacked the area around the power plant. However, there is no danger as all the units of the nuclear power plant have been shut down. The radiation levels are in the normal range. On Monday morning, Balizki announced that security precautions had been increased at all strategically important facilities on the orders of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin. Ukraine’s nuclear authority Energoatom announced via the Telegram short message service that a cooling tower and other systems at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant were damaged. The radiation levels are normal, Zelensky wrote on Platform called for an end to such attacks. “These reckless attacks endanger the nuclear safety of the power plant and increase the risk of a nuclear accident. They must stop immediately,” Grossi said in a statement on Monday night. IAEA experts who were near the power plant heard several explosions on Sunday afternoon, according to the organization. They were soon informed about a suspected drone attack that hit one of the cooling towers and set it on fire.The team reportedly ensured that the radiation dose did not change.In order to determine the cause and effects of the fire, the Vienna-based IAEA requested immediate access to the cooling tower. Europe’s largest nuclear power plant was captured by Russia shortly after the start of the war and has since been blamed by both sides for attacks or sabotage of the power plant and more recently by drone attacks from Ukraine Due to safety concerns, the reactors were shut down in 2022, but still need to be cooled.IAEA observers are stationed at the site.
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