Destruction of the Russian-held Kakhovka dam threatens the safety of Europe's largest nuclear power station. Read more at straitstimes.com.
KYIV - International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi said he will visit the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on Wednesday to personally assess the impact of“I’m going now”, Mr Grossi told journalists on Tuesday, after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.
“I want to make my own assessment. I want to go there, discuss with the management there what measures they are taking, and then make as I said a more definitive assessment of what kind of danger we have.”The Russian-held Kakhovka dam, destroyed last week in an incident Kyiv and Moscow blamed each other for, formed a reservoir that provided the cooling water for the plant, which is the largest in Europe.
The IAEA has warned that the dam disaster - which claimed at least 17 lives and has left dozens missing - further complicated “an already precarious nuclear safety and security situation” at the plant. “It is a step in the wrong direction, it is yet another step in the weakening of the safety net that one has in any nuclear power plant,” Mr Grossi said in Kyiv.Mr Grossi wants to assess the integrity of the station’s water channels and cooling pond, and to ask the Russians whether the pond is mined.
“I would say - again without having visited and on the basis of what my team there is informing me - there will be water for a few weeks, or maybe a month or two,” he said.
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