Negotiations under way for nuclear watchdog to visit Russian-occupied plant; US urges for demilitarised zone
- At a glance: what we know on day 184 of the invasion
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said the world narrowly avoided a “radiation disaster” as the last regular line supplying electricity to Ukraine’s Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was restored hours after being cut by shelling.
The Ukranian president said officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear watchdog, must be given urgent access to the site.
Today, for the first time in history, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant stopped. The emergency protection of the power units worked – after the last working line of the plant’s power return to the Ukrainian power system was damaged by Russian shelling.
If our station staff had not reacted after the blackout, then we would have already been forced to overcome the consequences of a radiation accident.
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