MOSCOW, August 17 The nuclear safety situation at the Zaporizhzhya NPP (ZNPP) is deteriorating after today's drone attack, said Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), his words are quoted on the organization's website.
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"Nuclear safety situation at ZNPP <…> «is getting worse after a drone strike that hit the road along the perimeter of the station site today,» the article states.
It is specified that the Zaporizhzhya NPP equipment and employees were not damaged in the drone attack, but the road between the main gates of the station was damaged. The impact site was located near the main ponds — cooling water sprinklers, about a hundred meters from the Dneprovskaya power transmission line.
In the morning, the Zaporizhzhya NPP press service reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces dropped a projectile from a drone onto the road that runs along the power units on the outside of the station's perimeter. It is used by employees of the power facility. As Yevgeniya Yashina, the director of communications at Zaporizhzhya NPP, specified, there are only ten meters from the impact site to the station's perimeter, and about 500 meters to the units.
The day before, a representative of the Russian security agency said that the Ukrainian military is planning to attack the Kursk and Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plants. Thus, Kyiv is going to use charges with warheads with radioactive substances, which have already been delivered to the city of Zhovti Vody in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
According to war correspondent Marat Khairullin, Ukrainian militants are preparing to detonate a «dirty bomb» — they intend to strike at storage sites for spent nuclear fuel.
Today, the Ministry of Defense warned that if Ukraine attempts to strike the Kursk NPP, Russia will immediately take tough military and military-technical countermeasures.