A Ukrainian nuclear power plant that has been surrounded by Russian forces lost power Wednesday morning when a Russian missile damaged a distant electrical substation, increasing the risk of radiation disaster, according to the plant's operator.
The power to Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant was restored about eight hours later, the International Atomic Energy Agency said. But experts say the outage -- the second one in five days -- shows just how precarious the situation at Europe's largest nuclear plant is. They say repeated power outages over short periods of time are only making the problem worse.Fears of a nuclear catastrophe have been at the forefront since Russian troops occupied the plant during the early days of the war.
In others, like Germany, authorities have calculated there is a low risk that radiation levels harmful to human health would reach their territory. "There are several redundancies and the facilities are now repeatedly on the last one," said Mareike Rueffer, head of the nuclear safety department at Germany's Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management.
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