The facility needs a third party to come in and shut down the plant until full inspections can take place and the facility made safe again. Russia knows less than nothing about nuclear material and cares even less.
Every nuclear reactor should be overseen by a third party that has control. There is no one from a communist country capable of taking care of these nuclear reactors. The responsibility will have to fall to a neutral party.
By Hugo Bachega
Map Source: Institute of War Studies. Why does that make me nervous?
August 8, 2022
By Peter Behr
Rocket fire (click here) around the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in eastern Ukraine late last week has raised “a very real risk of a nuclear disaster,” the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency warned over the weekend.
In a statement on the threat Saturday, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said none of the six reactors at Zaporizhzhia — Europe’s largest nuclear facility — had been damaged by recent rocket strikes and that no radiation had leaked.
There was damage to several support structures and a high voltage power line, the Ukrainian nuclear operator Energoatom reported Friday. The Paris-based Nuclear Energy Agency said the Ukraine State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate reports it is no longer in a position to oversee safety at the site.
Two of the plant’s reactors are still running, and two of four power lines connected to Ukraine’s power grid also remain operational, bringing in outside power to keep those reactors running, Ukraine agencies reported.
But Grossi renewed demands that Russia permit IAEA safety technicians to visit the plant to inspect its safety status and the health and security of the Ukrainian plant employees who have been forced to remain in place to operate the facility.
The operators must be allowed to do their work free from threats, pressure or punishment from Russian occupiers, Grossi said.
News reports said Russian troops had fired rockets at the Ukraine-held city of Enerhodar on the Dnieper River, hitting the nearby nuclear plant....
Russian forces occupying the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (click here) have turned the site into a military base to launch attacks against Ukrainian positions, the head of Ukraine's nuclear power company says.
Petro Kotin told the BBC the threat to the plant was "great", but that it remained safe.
For days, Ukraine and Russia have blamed each other for attacks on the site, Europe's largest nuclear plant, raising concerns of a major accident.
The complex has been under Russian occupation since early March, although Ukrainian technicians still operate it.
Over the weekend, Ukraine accused Russian forces of attacking the Soviet-era site, saying two workers were taken to hospital with shrapnel injuries and that three radiation sensors had been damaged.
Mr Kotin, who heads Enerhoatom, said 500 Russian soldiers were at the plant, and that they had positioned rocket launchers in the area, claims that cannot be independently verified....
We have been lucky to date. Europe is right there. Someone has to manage these facilities even if it means closing them indefinitely.
By Peter Behr
Rocket fire (click here) around the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in eastern Ukraine late last week has raised “a very real risk of a nuclear disaster,” the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency warned over the weekend.
In a statement on the threat Saturday, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said none of the six reactors at Zaporizhzhia — Europe’s largest nuclear facility — had been damaged by recent rocket strikes and that no radiation had leaked.
There was damage to several support structures and a high voltage power line, the Ukrainian nuclear operator Energoatom reported Friday. The Paris-based Nuclear Energy Agency said the Ukraine State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate reports it is no longer in a position to oversee safety at the site.
Two of the plant’s reactors are still running, and two of four power lines connected to Ukraine’s power grid also remain operational, bringing in outside power to keep those reactors running, Ukraine agencies reported.
But Grossi renewed demands that Russia permit IAEA safety technicians to visit the plant to inspect its safety status and the health and security of the Ukrainian plant employees who have been forced to remain in place to operate the facility.
The operators must be allowed to do their work free from threats, pressure or punishment from Russian occupiers, Grossi said.
News reports said Russian troops had fired rockets at the Ukraine-held city of Enerhodar on the Dnieper River, hitting the nearby nuclear plant....
