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IAEA head warns on danger of intensified fighting near Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

The head of the United Nations atomic energy commission said on Wednesday
that intensified fighting near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant poses
a threat to the facility’s safety. The increasing combat makes it urgent
to find a way to prevent a catastrophic nuclear accident at the
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, said International Atomic Energy Agency
director general Rafael Mariano Grossi. “It is obvious that this area is
facing perhaps a more dangerous phase,” he said of the facility, which is
in a partially Russian-occupied part of Ukraine. “We have to step up our
efforts to get to some agreement over the protection of the plant.”

 Morning Star 30th March 2023

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/un-agency-warns-rising-combat-near-ukraine-nuclear-plant

April 2, 2023 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, Ukraine