The risk of an accident at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant cannot be ruled out, the IAEA said

MOSCOW, August 26 – PRIME. The risk of an accident at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant cannot be ruled out, said the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi.

“The facility is functioning, but with difficulties, so under the current circumstances, the scenario of an accident cannot be ruled out. Constant power outages, problems with spent fuel,” the agency’s director general said in an interview with the French newspaper Monde.

According to him, IAEA specialists analyzed the risks of nuclear accidents at nuclear power plants, but did not expect that a large nuclear power plant would be at the center of a large-scale confrontation using conventional weapons.

Zaporozhye NPP is located on the left bank of the Dnieper near Energodar. This is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe in terms of the number of units and installed capacity. Since March, it has been guarded by the Russian military to prevent leaks of nuclear and radioactive materials. The Ukrainian side continues to regularly shell Energodar, the surrounding villages and the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant adjacent to the city.