The plant faces a shortage of water to cool reactors because Russian forces have let water out of a reservoir that supplies it.
Ihor Syrota, director general of the state-run Ukrhydroenergo hydropower generating company, told Reuters there was no immediate danger to Europe's largest nuclear plant, which has been occupied by Russian forces for the past year.
Nuclear plants need enough water to cool their reactors and to help prevent a nuclear meltdown. Syrota said the Zaporizhzhia plant still needed water to cool its reactors even though they have been shut down. State nuclear power company Energoatom said last month the water level at the reservoir was usually 16 metres but had dropped to 13.8 metres. It said a fall to 12.8 metres would be an emergency, and 12 metres would a critical situation."They are discharging a certain volume and we have raised the level to 14.30 metres from 13.50-13.60 metres. But still the gates are open," Syrota said.The Russian forces occupying Ukraine have not commented on the water level.
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