Ukraine nuclear power plant loses connection to power lines

 National Review:

The nuclear power plant at risk of severe damage in the middle of the Russia–Ukraine war lost connection to its remaining external power line and is receiving energy from a reserve line, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Saturday.

The power plant, located in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, had previously lost connection to its three other external power lines during the war, and is now being supplied energy solely from thermal power plant, the IAEA said in a statement.

If the plant is sufficiently damaged, nuclear waste from the plant, around twice the size of Chernobyl, could spread across Europe. Russia and Ukraine have pointed fingers regarding whose troops are damaging the plant, with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky calling the attacks “Russian nuclear terror.”

IAEA experts arrived to the plant on Thursday after warning that “every principle of nuclear safety has been violated” at the plant, and “what is at stake is extremely serious and extremely grave and dangerous.”

Upon arrival, the IAEA found that “there was damage to the facility’s solid radioactive waste storage, the ventilation pipe of special building 1, and the [nuclear power plant] training building,” according to the statement.

United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres has said the plant, which is the largest in Europe, poses a “maximum danger for our world,” and called for IAEA experts to monitor the facility.
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I think Russia is mainly responsible for using the plant as a position for its troops to attack Ukraine.  They are deliberate playing with a danger that goes beyond their stated war aim.

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