Ukraine nuclear company warns of Chernobyl radiation risk

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Russian forces have taken the Ukrainian plant — the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986 — off the grid.

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“Because of military actions of Russian occupiers the nuclear power plant in Chornobyl was fully disconnected from the power grid,” the system operator NPC Ukrenergo said,“The nuclear station has no power supply. The military actions are in progress, so there is no possibility to restore the lines,” it said.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Wednesday called on international leaders to pressure Russia to “cease fire and allow repair units to restore power supply.”. “The Agency is looking into the status of safeguards monitoring systems in other locations in Ukraine and will provide further information soon,” it added.The IAEA uses the term “safeguards” to describe measures it employs to nuclear material and activities — with the objective of deterring the spread of nuclear weapons via early detection.

“I call on the forces in effective control of the site to urgently facilitate the safe rotation of personnel there,” he added.A Soviet-era Duga photographed behind the radioactivity sign in Chernobyl.On Tuesday, the International Atomic Energy Agency said it lost contact with the plant’s safeguards monitoring system. The site currently isn’t operational, according to CNN.

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