The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations’ atomic watchdog agency, accursed the recent Ukrainian drone strike on one of the six nuclear reactors at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.
‘Such attacks significantly increase the risk of a major nuclear accident’, said Rafael Mariano Grossi.
‘The dome above a shutdown reactor at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear station was struck by Ukraine on April 7’, according to the plant’s Russian-installed administration.
‘It was not immediately clear what weapon was used in the strike on Sunday’, according to the media reports.
However, the Russian state-owned nuclear agency Rosatom stated that it was a drone attack at the nuclear plant, which was taken over by Russian forces after their full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
According to plant officials, ‘Radiation levels were normal, and there was no significant damage following the attack’.
Three individuals had been hurt, particularly as a result of a drone hit close to the canteen on the site. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which had its experts on the site, also informed that the Russian-run plant had come under a drone attack.
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