Serious Incident at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Raises Concerns

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Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant,Serious Incident,Reactor Containment System

A serious incident at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine has raised concerns about the integrity of the reactor's containment system. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that the plant was attacked by Ukrainian military drones, with at least three direct hits on the main reactor containment structures. This attack significantly increases the risk of a major nuclear accident, according to IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi.

The Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant was characterized as a"serious incident with potential to undermine integrity of the reactor’s containment system."on one of six nuclear reactors at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, saying such attacks “significantly increase the risk of a major nuclear accident."

Officials at the plant said the site was attacked Sunday by Ukrainian military drones, including a strike on the dome of the plant’s sixth power unit. The International Atomic Energy Agency said Sunday that its experts had been informed of the drone strike and that “such detonation is consistent with IAEA observations.”

Also on Sunday, three people were killed when their house was hit by a Russian projectile in the front-line town of Huliaipole in Ukraine’s partly occupied southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, regional Gov. Ivan Fedorov said. Later on Sunday, two people were wounded in another shelling of Huliaipole.

 

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