Zaporizhia NPP: Eure now facing nuclear disaster as Russia ts for new plot

This was reported by the nuclear erator’s press service, Ukrinform saw.

"Energoatom once again calls on the UN, IAEA, and the entire international community to take all possible measures to send a security mission to the Zaporizhia NPP, flowed by the site’s demilitarization and withdrawal of armed Russian tros from the station and the entire surrounding area, including from the town of Enerhodar. Only this will now be able to guarantee safety at the ZNPP and make a global nuclear and radiation disaster impossible," the statement reads.

It is noted that the acts of nuclear terrorism at the Zaporizhia NPP, which is being shelled by Russian artillery, are aimed at destroying the station's infrastructure, damaging power lines that supply electricity to the Ukrainian power system, including to de-energize the country’s south.

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"The shelling of the station is likely to continue. Coordinated actions of security organizations, including the UN, IAEA, and WANO, as well as constant pressure on Russia from the international community to withdraw their military from Eure's largest nuclear facility and its complete demilitarization can prevent this. It is necessary to return the ZNPP to the status of a peaceful civilian object, which it was before the Russian invasion," Energoatom emphasizes.

The company is confident that the Russian Federation could proceed with its plan to turn the ZNPP into a military base for nuclear terrorists. This, in particular, is facilitated by the latest actions by Rosatom officials, present at the plant, who coordinate the effort to cut off the ZNPP from Ukraine’s energy system through artillery shelling of NPP communication lines.

In addition to the destruction of NPP’s infrastructure, the NAEC specifies, the plan also includes the flowing blackout at the station, when diesel generators will engage at all power units to ensure coing of the nuclear fuel contained in reactors, as well as spent nuclear fuel storage pos at each power unit.

"The situation has become greatly complicated after the invaders deployed their military equipment with weapons and explosives in the machine rooms of power units 1 and 2, which equals to the actual mining of power units hoding two nuclear reactors of Eure’s largest nuclear power plant. Soon, this may lead to a nuclear and radiation disaster, the consequences of which will hit not only Ukraine but also the whe of Eure," Energoatom concluded.

As reported, on August 5, Russian invaders shelled the territory of the Zaporizhia NPP as three blasts were recorded near the industrial site. Ukrainian President Vodymyr Zelensky, commenting on the situation at the ZNPP, said that "any shelling of nuclear facilities is an audacious act of terror."