The world’s largest nuclear power station is located in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia area, which experienced explosions, the worldwide nuclear watchdog reported on Sunday. In the Russian-occupied plant, it demanded “rapid actions to help prevent a nuclear accident.” Since Russian troops took the plant in the early stages of the war, concerns about a nuclear disaster have been prominent. A catastrophe has become more likely as the fighting in the area has persisted.
Rafael Grossi, the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog, reported on Sunday that “huge explosions” seemed to be “renewed shelling” at Europe’s largest nuclear plant, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear station in Ukraine, which is under Russian control.
“The news… is quite upsetting. Explosions took place at the location of this large nuclear power station, which is totally unacceptable, according to a written statement from Grossi, who also noted that the damage to structures, systems, and equipment thus far recorded was not “critical.” .
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that more than a dozen explosions occurred on Saturday evening and Sunday at Europe’s largest nuclear power facility. Both Moscow and Kiev accused the other of being responsible for the facility’s shelling.
Repeated shelling of the plant in southern Ukraine, which Russia seized shortly after its February invasion, has sparked worries about the possibility of a serious accident so close to the location of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster, the worst nuclear accident in history, which is only 500 kilometres (300 miles) away.
Russia’s defence ministry claimed that Ukraine shelled power cables feeding the facility, while TASS, citing a representative of Russian nuclear power operator Rosenergoatom, claimed that part of the site’s storage facilities had been struck by Ukrainian firing.
According to TASS, Karchaa stated that although the shells were fired close to a facility for storing dry nuclear waste and a structure housing recently used nuclear fuel, no radioactive emissions have yet been noticed.
Energoatom, a Ukrainian nuclear energy company, claimed there had been at least 12 hits on plant equipment and accused the Russian military of firing the area.
