KYIV: Anxiety increased about Europe’s largest nuclear power plant after Ukraine’s state nuclear energy operator warned the plant was operating in emergency mode on Friday for the fifth straight day due to the war.
That prompted the head of the UN atomic watchdog to call for an immediate safety zone around the plant to prevent a nuclear accident. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and surrounding areas have been repeatedly hit by shelling. The last power line connecting the p lant to the Ukrainian electricity grid was cut on Monday, leaving the plant without an outside source of electricity and receiving power from only one of the six reactors that is operational.
That prompted the head of the UN atomic watchdog to call for an immediate safety zone around the plant to prevent a nuclear accident. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and surrounding areas have been repeatedly hit by shelling. The last power line connecting the p lant to the Ukrainian electricity grid was cut on Monday, leaving the plant without an outside source of electricity and receiving power from only one of the six reactors that is operational.