While the IAEA said it doesn't see an 'immediate risk' to the nuclear plant's safety, the agency warned that a lack of cooling water 'would cause fuel melt and inoperability of the emergency diesel generators.'
The wrecked barrier held back a body of water equal in size to Utah's Great Salt Lake, and the reservoir supplies water for the cooling of the Zaporizhzhia facility, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. The reservoir also serves as a key source of drinking water.a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.that"neither side offered immediate public evidence" to substantiate their accusations.
But Rafael Mariano Grossi, the IAEA's director-general, stressed Tuesday that an"absence of cooling water in the essential cooling water systems for an extended period of time would cause fuel melt and inoperability of the emergency diesel generators" at Zaporizhzhia, which is currently controlled by Russian forces."The main line of cooling water is fed from the reservoir and pumped up through channels near the thermal power plant to the site," said Grossi.
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