VIENNA: The UN nuclear agency's chief warned on Thursday (Mar 9) of the danger of repeated electricity outages at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia power plant, after a new missile strike left it running on diesel generators. Electricity is essential to operate pumps that circulate water to cool reactors and pools ho
VIENNA: The UN nuclear agency's chief warned on Thursday of the danger of repeated electricity outages at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia power plant, after a new missile strike left it running on diesel generators.
Electricity is essential to operate pumps that circulate water to cool reactors and pools holding nuclear fuel."And if we allow this to continue time after time then one day our luck will run out." Grossi has been in consultations with Kyiv and Moscow for several months to try to set up a protection zone around the plant, but the talks appear to have stalled.
"We must commit to protect the safety and security of the plant," Grossi said."And we need to commit now. What we need is action.Grossi noted this was the sixth time that the Zaporizhzhia facility had been cut off from the electricity grid since Russia captured it a year ago, and the first time since November."I am astonished by the complacency - what are we doing to prevent this happening?" he added, vowing to pursue his efforts.
The strike came during a fresh wave of Russian attacks across Ukraine which killed at least nine people and led to power outages across the country.
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