Zelensky spoke about the danger of radiation created by Russia
The Kremlin denies the allegations
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky Due to Russian shelling of the region of Ukraine The Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) was shut down for hours, narrowly averting the world’s radiation disaster. said.
Moscow denied this claim.
The Kremlin said that Russia army did not cause such a situation at the NPP.
Zelensky and says that Russia’s fire disconnected the reactor complex, which is the largest facility in Europe, from the power grid. Moreover, it caused fires in the ash pits of a nearby coal power plant.
“Backup diesel generators provided vital power for the plant’s cooling and safety systems. In this regard Russia The Ukrainian technicians who managed the plant under the control of the military have done a great job. “If our employees at the station had not reacted immediately to the power outage, then we would have already had to deal with eliminating the consequences of the radiation accident.”
President added that Russia It has brought Ukraine and the whole of Europe one step closer to a radiation disaster.
The occupied town of Enerhodar near the plant is overseen by Vladimir Rogov, a Russian-appointed official.
In the fire that happened in the forest near him Ukraine blamed the armed forces. He said that the cities in the region lost electricity for several hours.
“This was caused by the cutting of power lines from the Zaporizhia NPP as a result of provocations by Zelensky’s fighters,” Rogov wrote in “Telegram”.
He added that disconnection from the electricity grid itself fire and it happened as a result of a short circuit in the electric wires.
of Ukraine state nuclear company Energoatom said it was the first complete outage at the plant, which has become a hot spot in the six-month-old war.
Russia started armed intervention in Ukraine at the end of February.
He took over the plant in March and has been controlling it ever since. Although Ukrainian technicians still work there.
United Nations organisation (UN) trying to gain access to the plant and called for demilitarization of the area. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) CEO Rafael Grossi also said that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) officials to Zaporizhia trip they are close to being able to do it.
Russia and Ukraine accusing each other of shelling the area, raising fears of a nuclear disaster.
Nuclear experts have warned of the risk of damaging the plant’s spent fuel pools or its reactors.
An outage of the power needed to cool the pools can cause a catastrophic spill.
National safety expert Paul Bracken, a professor at the Yale School of Management, said the possibility that artillery shells or rockets could pierce the reactor walls was a concern.
According to him, radiation could potentially be spread over a large area, as was the case with the Chernobyl reactor accident in 1986.
Bracken said any failure at the Zaporizhia plant could kill hundreds or thousands of people and cause environmental damage over a larger area, reaching as far as Europe.