All Ukrainian nuclear plants are operating stably, but workers at the Zaporizhzhia plant, which was captured by Russian forces earlier this month, are facing psychological pressure, Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear company Energoatom said on Friday. 11).
Still, it was reported that radiation levels in all plants did not change.
“Station personnel are under strong psychological pressure from the occupiers, all personnel upon arrival at the station are carefully checked by armed terrorists,” he said, referring to Russian forces in Zaporizhzhia.
“All this negatively affects the work and jeopardizes nuclear and radiation safety,” he added.
As stable as the situation is, the international community is on alert, as a disaster in Zaporizhzhia could be up to ten times greater than in Chernobyl – which was the worst nuclear disaster in history.
The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said this week that it has completely lost contact with Chernobyl and no longer receives remote transmission of data from Zaporizhzhia.
On Thursday (10), the director general of the organization, Rafael Grossi, met with the foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine. He asked for agility to resolve the situation and highlighted that both diplomats are willing to work together with the IAEA.
Source: CNN Brasil
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