As a result of the explosions, a ZNPP worker was injured by shrapnel, he was taken to the city hospital.
The military opened fire on the site of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. The missiles hit near a dry storage facility for spent nuclear fuel. Energoatom reported this on August 7.
“On the night of August 6, the Russian invaders again fired rockets at the site of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant and at the city of Energodar. They hit the ZNPP site directly next to the dry storage facility of the station for the spent that nuclear fuel ( SNF). Obviously, they definitely targeted the SNF containers, which in the open air 174 containers, each containing 24 assemblies of spent nuclear fuel, are stored near the sites of shelling,” it was reported.
Energoatom noted that due to enemy rocket attacks, three radiation monitoring sensors around the Zaporozhye NPP storage facility were damaged. Therefore, timely detection and response in the event of a deterioration in the radiation situation or radiation leakage from containers of spent nuclear fuel is impossible.
In addition, due to numerous small fragments from the explosions, approximately 800 square meters were damaged. m of window surfaces in various station buildings.
It is reported that as a result of the explosions, a ZNPP worker was injured by shrapnel, he was taken to the city hospital.
“All the Russian military, of which up to 500 people have been on the ZNPP site since the day it was captured, as well as Rosatom terrorist personnel, hid in advance in the bunker rooms of the crisis center of station and technical support center,” the report said.
It was also noted that the Russian military opened fire near the territory of the plant of building structures and at the water intake of the city of Energodar.
Earlier, Energoatom reported that the consequences of the decommissioning of a nuclear power plant by the Russians carry the risk of hydrogen leakage and the spread of radioactive substances.
The IAEA has announced the risk of a nuclear disaster at the ZNPP.
The Office of the President called on the IAEA to influence Russia after the shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
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