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The essence of the power plant’s dangerous situation is not hard to sketch. Built in the 1980s under the Soviet Union, when Russia and Ukraine both belonged to it, the Zaporozhe nuclear power station came under Russian control in March 2022. By fall of that year, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) started visiting the plant. Throughout, it has repeatedly been at the center of major – and well-founded – scares because military action has been getting far too close to it. While the plant is essentially shut down and not used to generate power, it needs constant maintenance. In particular, its six reactors require constant cooling. For that, they need to stay connected to the electrical grid. Moreover, the territory of the power station features various sources of potential nuclear contamination.
Now – and not for the first time – the IAEA, an organization that cultivates an emphatically low-key public communications style, has warned that “the nuclear safety situation” at Zaporozhe is “deteriorating.” Its director general, Rafael Grossi, has spoken of “an escalation,” and remains “extremely concerned,” while calling for maximum restraint from all sides. In IAEA diplomatese, this is close to a cry of despair.
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The reason for Grossi’s urgent warning is that a drone has bombed a location “just outside of the plant’s protected area … close to the essential cooling water sprinkler ponds and about 100 meters” from the the only remaining substantial power line providing electricity to the plant. Remember: no power, no cooling.
According to the IAEA, its representatives at Zaporozhe have also “reported that military activity in the area – including very close to the plant – has been intense for the last week,” with “frequent explosions, repetitive heavy machine gun and rifle fire and artillery at various distances.”
In addition, the IAEA further reports, a significant fire at a cooling tower “earlier this week resulted in considerable damage, although there was no immediate threat to nuclear safety.” While “nuclear power plants are designed to be resilient against technical or human failures and external events including extreme ones,” they are not built, Grossi has stressed, “to withstand a direct military attack.”
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The essence of the power plant’s dangerous situation is not hard to sketch. Built in the 1980s under the Soviet Union, when Russia and Ukraine both belonged to it, the Zaporozhe nuclear power station came under Russian control in March 2022. By fall of that year, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) started visiting the plant. Throughout, it has repeatedly been at the center of major – and well-founded – scares because military action has been getting far too close to it. While the plant is essentially shut down and not used to generate power, it needs constant maintenance. In particular, its six reactors require constant cooling. For that, they need to stay connected to the electrical grid. Moreover, the territory of the power station features various sources of potential nuclear contamination.
Now – and not for the first time – the IAEA, an organization that cultivates an emphatically low-key public communications style, has warned that “the nuclear safety situation” at Zaporozhe is “deteriorating.” Its director general, Rafael Grossi, has spoken of “an escalation,” and remains “extremely concerned,” while calling for maximum restraint from all sides. In IAEA diplomatese, this is close to a cry of despair.
..
The reason for Grossi’s urgent warning is that a drone has bombed a location “just outside of the plant’s protected area … close to the essential cooling water sprinkler ponds and about 100 meters” from the the only remaining substantial power line providing electricity to the plant. Remember: no power, no cooling.
According to the IAEA, its representatives at Zaporozhe have also “reported that military activity in the area – including very close to the plant – has been intense for the last week,” with “frequent explosions, repetitive heavy machine gun and rifle fire and artillery at various distances.”
In addition, the IAEA further reports, a significant fire at a cooling tower “earlier this week resulted in considerable damage, although there was no immediate threat to nuclear safety.” While “nuclear power plants are designed to be resilient against technical or human failures and external events including extreme ones,” they are not built, Grossi has stressed, “to withstand a direct military attack.”
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comrade stalin
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