The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, said: "The news from our team yesterday and this morning is very disturbing".
added: "Explosions occurred at this site the nuclear power plant Big, which is totally unacceptable. Whoever is behind it must be stopped immediately. As I have said many times before, you are playing with fire!".
Citing information from station management, the International Atomic Energy Agency team said "There has been damage to some buildings, systems and equipment at the site, but so far none pose a risk to nuclear safety".
And he raised the repeated shelling of the station located to the south Ukrainewhich Russia took control of shortly after the start of its military operation in Ukraine last February, fears the possibility of a major accident just 500 kilometers from the site of the worst nuclear accident in the world, which is a catastrophe Chernobyl 1986.
Zaporizhya supplied about a fifth of pre-war Ukraine’s electricity on 24 February and had to run on standby generators several times.
The plant’s reactors have been shut down, but there is a risk of overheating the nuclear fuel if the electricity that powers the cooling systems is cut off. The bombings have repeatedly disrupted power lines.
recriminations
Kiev and Moscow have accused each other of attacking the plant and risking a nuclear accident several times during the war, with Sunday seeing the latest exchange of accusations.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Ukraine fired shells at power lines feeding the plant, while Russia’s TASS news agency reported that some storage facilities at the site were bombed by Ukrainians, citing an official of the Russian nuclear energy company, Rosenergoatom.
TASS quotes adviser to the company’s chief executive, Renate Karca, as saying: "Not only was it bombed yesterday, it is being bombed now today"adding that no artillery attacks on the site "Threat Nuclear safety".
added that "The missiles were fired near a dry nuclear waste repository and a building containing fresh amounts of spent nuclear fuel.". TASS sued him for saying that "No radioactive emissions have yet been detected".
The Ukrainian nuclear company Energo Atom is accused the Russian army bombed the station and claimed that the station’s infrastructure facilities were exposed "for at least 12 shots".
The company said Russia "Targeted the infrastructure needed to restart units at the plant, in a bid to shut down power generation for Ukrainian needs".
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reported International Atomic Energy Agencythat “more than 10 explosions shook Akbar Nuclear power plant In Europe, Saturday and Sunday evening. Moscow and Kiev have exchanged accusations of bombing the facility.
“The news from our team yesterday and this morning is very disturbing,” said Rafael Grossi, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
He added: “There have been explosions at this site the nuclear power plant Big, which is totally unacceptable. Whoever is behind it must be stopped immediately. As I’ve said many times before, you’re playing with fire!”
Citing information from the plant’s management, the IAEA team said, “There has been damage to some buildings, systems and equipment at the site, but none of it so far poses a threat to nuclear safety.”
And he raised the repeated shelling of the station located to the south Ukrainewhich Russia took control of shortly after the start of its military operation in Ukraine last February, fears the possibility of a major accident just 500 kilometers from the site of the worst nuclear accident in the world, which is a catastrophe Chernobyl 1986.
Zaporizhya supplied about a fifth of pre-war Ukraine’s electricity on 24 February and had to run on standby generators several times.
The plant’s reactors have been shut down, but there is a risk of the nuclear fuel overheating if the electricity that powers the cooling systems is cut off. The bombings have repeatedly disrupted power lines.
recriminations
Kiev and Moscow have accused each other of attacking the plant and risking a nuclear accident several times during the war, with Sunday seeing the latest exchange of accusations.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Ukraine fired shells at power lines feeding the plant, while Russia’s TASS news agency reported that some storage facilities at the site were bombed by Ukrainians, citing an official of the Russian nuclear energy company, Rosenergoatom.
“Not only was it bombed yesterday, but it is being bombed today even now,” said the adviser to the company’s CEO, Rinat Karcha, TASS, adding that any artillery attack on the site “threatens Nuclear safety“.
It added that “the missiles were fired near a dry nuclear waste repository and a building containing fresh amounts of spent nuclear fuel.” Tass quoted him as saying that “no radioactive emissions have been detected so far”.
The Ukrainian nuclear company Energo Atom is accused the Russian army bombed the station and said that the station’s infrastructure facilities were subjected to “no less than 12 attacks”.
The company said Russia “has targeted the infrastructure needed to restart the station’s units, in an effort to prevent power generation to meet Ukrainian needs.”
