Renewed Ukrainian artillery strikes on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (ZNPP) have created a risk of a nuclear disaster, Rosatom director-general Alexey Likhachev told reporters on Monday.
Moscow has called on the International Atomic Energy Agency to publicly admit Kiev is bombing the facility and call for an end to the attacks.
“We were in talks with the IAEA all night,” Likhachev told reporters during the Atomexpo-2022 in Sochi. After a “relatively calm” period since September, at least 30 projectiles struck the facility over the weekend, damaging the backup generators and the spent fuel storage facility, he added.
Europe’s largest nuclear power plant has been under control of Russian troops since February 28. While the reactor blocks are strong enough to withstand shelling, damaging the spent fuel containers risks a release of radioactive material into the atmosphere, with unpredictable consequences.
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