Wednesday, March 2, 2022

IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine: Russia Informs It Has Surrounded The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

Which means a flip of a switch and a lot of lights go out. Or worse.

Hope the steel plants don't have anything molten. If it solidifies it's time to shop for a whole new plant. Or worse.

From The International Atomic Energy Agency:

Russia has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that its military forces have taken control of the territory around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today.

In an official letter to the Director General dated 1 March, the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the International Organizations in Vienna also said personnel at the plant continued their “work on providing nuclear safety and monitoring radiation in normal mode of operation. The radiation levels remain normal.”

Earlier on 1 March, Ukraine informed the IAEA that all its nuclear power plants remained under the control of the national operator. In an update this morning, the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU) said it maintained communications with the country’s nuclear facilities and that the NPPs continued to operate normally.

The Zaporizhzhia plant is the largest of Ukraine’s NPP sites with six out of the country’s 15 nuclear energy reactors....

....MUCH MORE

To the south-east of Zaporizhzhia the neo-Nazi shock troops of the Azov Brigade in Mariupol have been encircled. They are nasty guys, it could get ugly. Civilians as human shields and worse.

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