The Agency warns again about the safety of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant
reported by Mehr News Agency According to Reuters, the International Atomic Energy Agency in a statement referring to the recent drone attack near the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant described the safety conditions of this power plant as dire.
In the statement of the agency, which was published after the drone attack on the road near the Zaporozhye power plant, it is stated: Agency experts stationed at the Zaporozhye power plant, immediately from the shadowed place (attack) in the vicinity of the cooling water reservoir They visited about 100 meters from the “Densporovska” power transmission lines.
In another part of this statement, it is stated: Although (this attack) did not cause casualties or damage to any of the power plant’s equipment, the road between the two gates of the power plant was damaged. Once again, we are witnessing the escalation of nuclear safety conditions and security risks towards the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
Rafael Grossi, the director general of the Agency, in another part of this statement, asked the parties to exercise maximum restraint.
The agency has emphasized that the agency’s experts have reported on “severe” military movements in this area during the past week, including movements “very close to the power plant”. And there is no sign of adjustment in this activity and military movements.
Also, according to the agency, the team stationed at the power plant has constantly recorded the sound of explosions and continuous fire of heavy weapons and artillery at different distances from the power plant.
Following the fire in the cooling tower of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant that occurred last week, Ukraine and Russia pointed the finger of accusation at each other, while Moscow shortly after the start of the attack to Kiev, captured the Zaporozhye region where this power plant is also located.
The Ministry of Defense of Russia yesterday, referring to what was called Kiev’s plan to attack the nuclear power plant in the Kursk region and bring disaster and radioactive contamination, emphasized that such an action It will deliberately lead to Moscow’s harsh retaliatory response.
The reports received yesterday by the Ministry of Defense of Russia indicate that the Ukrainian forces are preparing a provocative nuclear act and using a “dirty bomb” in the Kursk region of Russia. are.
Russia’s Kursk border region has been under the fire of Ukrainian attacks since August 6. Kursk Nuclear Power Plant’s facilities and building, which is often called the twin sister of Chernobyl Power Plant, with almost the same architecture, has a total capacity of 4,000 megawatts of electricity. The fourth reactor of this power plant was activated in December 1985, a few months before the Chernobyl disaster.
