The head of the National Defense Control Center of Russia, Mikhail Mizintsev, said at a briefing that as a result of the shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, «critical infrastructure» was not damaged, but the cooling systems were «partially damaged.»
the thermal power plant for own needs and the equipment of the spray pools of the cooling system of nuclear reactors were damaged, ”Interfax quoted him as saying.
Russia and Ukraine regularly accuse each other of shelling the city of Energodar on the banks of the Kakhovka reservoir, where the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is located. Neither party takes responsibility for the attacks.
On August 11, Energodar, which has been under the control of the Russian military since March, was hit by several shellings. The head of Zaporozhye, appointed by the Russian military, Yevgeny Balitsky, claimed that there were “three arrivals in the area of the storage of radioactive isotopes.”
Ukrainian Energoatom, whose employees still manage the station, reported shelling of the fire station in Energodar outside the nuclear power plant and several shells falling «quite close» to the first power unit.
At the same time, both according to the data of the pro-Russian administration and according to Energoatom, it remains normal. publish-context-cite__image» alt=»1″ />There are five months of fighting. How likely is a nuclear catastrophe?
IAEA experts asked Moscow and Kyiv to allow their experts to the station to make sure that nothing threatens security there. On August 11, New York hosts a meeting of the UN Security Council dedicated to the Zaporozhye NPP. Russian representative Vasily Nebenzya said that he was waiting for the IAEA representatives “as soon as possible, possibly even before the end of August.”
The head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, who spoke at the meeting, noted that now “an immediate threat to nuclear security in no result of shelling or other recent hostilities», but «the situation can change at any moment».