Growing Risk Ukraine Nuclear Plant Could Sputter Radioactive Substances: Operator
The Ukrainian operator over Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is Europe’s largest, is warning Saturday of the risk of a radioactive leak at the site, which since March has been occupied by some 500 Russian troops.
“As a result of periodic shelling, the infrastructure of the station has been damaged, there are risks of hydrogen leakage and sputtering of radioactive substances, and the fire hazard is high,” Energoatom said on Telegram.
After Thursday the plant was cut off from the electrical grid for the first time it its history, which was subsequently restored hours later, there’s been growing international alarm over the…
