Bombing on Tuesday damaged a backup power line at the Russian-captured Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, which has already lost all four normal power lines, the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
“Of the three backup lines between the nuclear power plant and the thermal power station, one was damaged by the bombing, and the other two were disconnected,” Ukrainian operatives told the IAEA experts present at the station since last week, the IAEA said in a statement.
On Wednesday, Ukraine asked residents of the Russian-occupied areas around the Zaporizhzhya NPP to evacuate the area for their own safety.
“I appeal to the residents of the areas adjacent to the Zaporizhzhya NPP… evacuate! Find a way to the controlled (Ukrainian) territory,” Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said in Telegram.
In addition, according to the governor of the region Valentyn Reznichenko, in recent days, iodine tablets have been distributed to residents to protect them from radiation leakage.
Russia has resumed bombing near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizhzhia, a day after the UN called for a demilitarized zone around the plant, The Guardian reports.
A local official told the Associated Press on Wednesday that the Russians fired rockets and heavy artillery at the city of Nikopol, on the opposite bank of the Dnieper from Zaporizhzhia.
Ukraine also said Wednesday it was considering shutting down the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant for safety reasons and was concerned about stocks of diesel fuel used for backup generators, according to the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine.
“The option of stopping the plant is being worked out,” Inspector General Oleg Korikov said during a press briefing on Wednesday.
In a report published on Tuesday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) called for the creation of a “safe zone” to prevent a nuclear accident at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which has been occupied by the Russians since March.
“The current situation is unsustainable,” the IAEA wrote in a 52-page report. “It is necessary to urgently take temporary measures,” the UN agency continues, demanding “the immediate establishment of a nuclear protection and safety zone.”
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