On April 9, 2016, there is a sign warning of radioactive contamination near an old apartment in Pripyat near Chernobyl, Ukraine. Built in the 1970s as a model Soviet city for accommodating workers and families at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Pripyat is now standing. Abandoned in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. This is the world’s worst civilian nuclear accident that spewed fallout around the world, a restricted area contaminated with radiation from the collapse of Reactor 4 in 1986 at the nearby Chernobyl power plant. In the days following the disaster, authorities have evacuated about 43,000 people from Pripyat, and the city with high-rise condominiums, hospitals, shops, schools, restaurants, cultural centers and sports facilities has been a ghost town ever since. Today, the world is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident on April 26, 1986. Today, tour operators take tourists in small groups to explore specific parts of the exclusion zone. (Shaun Gallup / Getty Images)
The International Energy Agency (IAEA) has “no significant impact” on the safety of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear site after Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and other officials have issued a warning about potential radiation leaks overnight. “.
The Kyiv government has informed the UN Atomic Energy Agency of the power plant that its chief, Rafael Grossi, “violates an important safety pillar in ensuring an uninterruptible power supply,” he said. The IAEA does not see any significant impact on safety. ” according to For a Twitter post on Wednesday.
“IAEA says [the] Heat load and amount of cooling water in the spent fuel storage pool [the] The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is sufficient for effective heat removal without the need for power supply, “continued the IAEA’s Twitter thread.
It came a few hours after the Ukrainian National Nuclear Regulatory Inspector Said The Chernobyl nuclear power plant has lost power and has issued a warning about possible radiation leaks. A few days after the February 24 invasion, Ukrainian officials confirmed that Russian troops had captured plants along the Ukrainian-Belarus border about 60 miles north of Kyiv.
The Chernobyl-Kyiv high voltage line is currently cut “due to damage by the occupiers”. Said Ukraine’s Energoatom on Wednesday morning added that there was a shortage of electricity at Chernobyl station and all nuclear facilities in the excluded areas.
“The only power grid that powers the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and all its nuclear facilities occupied by the Russian army is damaged,” Kleber wrote Wednesday. “CNPP has lost all power supplies. I urge the international community to urgently demand a ceasefire from Russia and allow repair units to restore power supplies.”
“The spare diesel generator has a capacity of 48 hours to power the Chernobyl nuclear power plant,” he continued. “Since then, the cooling system of the spent nuclear fuel storage facility has shut down and radiation leaks are imminent. Putin’s barbaric war endangers Europe as a whole.”
Ukrainian government caveat Like the Soviet disaster of 1986, winds can move radioactive clouds across Ukraine, Russia, and other parts of Europe.
The government also said that the conflict over the nuclear power plant made it impossible to carry out repairs.
Maria Zakharova, Spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Said A state-owned store where the site was operating normally on Wednesday morning.
“Currently, control over the situation at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is being jointly exercised by Russian military personnel, Ukrainian experts, factory civilians, and the country’s national guard,” she said. He said the government’s claim was false.
“Russian troops’ actions in this dangerous situation were motivated by the need to prevent nuclear provocation from Ukrainian nationalists who seemed to have nothing to lose. In fact, they did it. That’s why the Russian army keeps Ukraine’s nuclear facilities under control, “she claimed.
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Jack Phillips is the latest news reporter for The Epoch Times, based in New York.