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NHK
07-07-2025
- Politics
- NHK
NGOs warn Zaporizhzhia plant at high risk of nuclear accident
Ukrainian non-governmental organizations warn that the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine is at an elevated risk of a nuclear accident. Officials from two Ukrainian NGOs described the current situation at the Russian-occupied plant during a news conference in Tokyo on Monday. The groups examine Russian war crimes based on satellite imagery and interviews with relevant persons. Their news conference came after the International Atomic Energy Agency reported that all external power lines supplying electricity to the plant were down for several hours on Friday. The NGOs said they are investigating what caused the outage. The groups, however, said they are aware that the outage coincided with air raid alarms in the region. The organizations warned that the Zaporizhzhia plant is at a heightened risk of an accident. They said that its personnel have been tortured and that Russian troops have militarized the plant, placing their weapons in and around the compound. The NGOs said they have identified seven locations in the vicinity of the plant where nuclear engineers and civilians were tortured by Russian forces. They said some of them were tortured by electric shock. An NGO official said Russia's military infringes on human rights and is threatening nuclear safety. The official stressed the need for the entire international community to consider how to response to war crimes committed by Russia's military, as well as to address a possible nuclear accident.
Reuters
04-07-2025
- Politics
- Reuters
Power cut to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant; Kyiv blames Russian strike
VIENNA, July 4 (Reuters) - All external power lines supplying electricity to the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine were down on Friday, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said, and Ukraine blamed Russian shelling for severing the last power line. Europe's biggest nuclear power plant, which is not operating but still requires power to keep its nuclear fuel cool, has switched to running on diesel generators, the International Atomic Energy Agency said. The IAEA has repeatedly warned of the risk of a catastrophic accident at Zaporizhzhia, which is located near the front line in the war in Ukraine. Its six reactors are shut down, but the nuclear fuel inside them still needs to be cooled, which requires constant power. "Ukraine's ZNPP lost all off-site power at 17:36 today, 9th time during military conflict and first since late 2023," the IAEA said on X. "The ZNPP currently relies on power from its emergency diesel generators, underlining (the) extremely precarious nuclear safety situation." Ukraine's energy minister, German Galuschenko, wrote on Telegram that a Russian strike had cut the plant off. "The enemy struck the power line connecting the temporarily occupied (Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant) with the integrated power system of Ukraine." Neither the IAEA nor the plant's Russian-installed management initially cited a cause for the cut-off. "The reasons for the disconnection are being clarified. The equipment at the station is in a safe state and under the control of staff. No violations of safety conditions have been noted," the Russia-installed management said.
Yahoo
14-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Russia destroys 100 tonnes of humanitarian aid in Zaporizhzhia
A warehouse containing at least a hundred tonnes of humanitarian aid has been destroyed due to a Russian attack on the city of Zaporizhzhia. Source: Radio Liberty Details: The city had reportedly received five lorries loaded with humanitarian aid. The scenes of the strikes were the places where this aid was provided to internally displaced persons and residents of frontline areas. Radio Liberty's post specified that all 100 tonnes of aid had been burned. The damage is estimated at US$3 million. Screenshot Background: On the night of 13-14 June, Russian troops attacked Zaporizhzhia with 14 Shahed-type kamikaze drones. Two law enforcement officers were injured and civilian infrastructure and cars damaged in the attack. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
Asharq Al-Awsat
03-06-2025
- General
- Asharq Al-Awsat
No Way to Restart Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant at Present, IAEA Chief Says
Conditions for restarting Ukraine's Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant do not exist at present due to a lack of water for cooling and the absence of a stable power supply, the head of the UN's nuclear safety watchdog said on Tuesday. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi told Reuters in an interview in Kyiv that water would have to be pumped from the Dnipro River for the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is currently shut down, to restart. The facility, in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region, was occupied by Russia in March 2022, shortly after it launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor. Grossi said the Russians had "never hidden the fact" that they want to restart the plant, but they would not be able to do so soon. "We are not in a situation of imminent restart of the plant. Far from that, it would take quite some time before that can be done," Grossi said. The IAEA chief added that the plant's machinery, which has not been operating for three years, would have to be thoroughly inspected before any restart. Ukraine has said that an attempt by Russian technicians to restart the plant would be dangerous because they are not certified to operate the Zaporizhzhia plant. Grossi said Russian nuclear staff were capable of conducting a restart, and that the issue of certification was a political rather than technical one. Ukraine has also protested at the IAEA's monitoring mission to the plant accessing it via Russian-occupied territory. Grossi said this was to protect the safety of his staff, and that at present he does not have the necessary guarantees from the Russian side to safely transit IAEA staff through the frontlines to Ukraine-controlled territory, as had been done several times before.
Reuters
03-06-2025
- General
- Reuters
No way to restart Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant at present, IAEA chief says
KYIV, June 3 (Reuters) - Conditions for restarting Ukraine's Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant do not exist at present due to a lack of water for cooling and the absence of a stable power supply, the head of the UN's nuclear safety watchdog said on Tuesday. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi told Reuters in an interview in Kyiv that water would have to be pumped from the Dnipro River for the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is currently shut down, to restart. The facility, in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region, was occupied by Russia in March 2022, shortly after it launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbour. Grossi said the Russians had "never hidden the fact" that they want to restart the plant, but they would not be able to do so soon. "We are not in a situation of imminent restart of the plant. Far from that, it would take quite some time before that can be done," Grossi said. The IAEA chief added that the plant's machinery, which has not been operating for three years, would have to be thoroughly inspected before any restart. Ukraine has said that an attempt by Russian technicians to restart the plant would be dangerous because they are not certified to operate the Zaporizhzhia plant. Grossi said Russian nuclear staff were capable of conducting a restart, and that the issue of certification was a political rather than technical one. Ukraine has also protested at the IAEA's monitoring mission to the plant accessing it via Russian-occupied territory. Grossi said this was to protect the safety of his staff, and that at present he does not have the necessary guarantees from the Russian side to safely transit IAEA staff through the frontlines to Ukraine-controlled territory, as had been done several times before.
