The overnight shelling cut the power line to the Russian-controlled Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.
This development forced the station to use its emergency oil generators, as announced today by the State Nuclear Energy Company of Ukraine, as well as the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency.
Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for the bombing of the site of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, which destroyed buildings and threatened a catastrophic nuclear incident.
The International Atomic Energy Agency is pushing for a buffer zone to be set up to protect the nuclear plant from further bombing.
Although the six nuclear reactors in Zaporizhia have been decommissioned, the nuclear fuel inside them requires cooling to avoid the risk of a meltdown. Thus, a continuous supply of electricity is required.
Source: News Beast
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