Threat to nuclear security: Russian occupiers want to turn off cooling of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant during search for weapons

"UKRAINSKA PRAVDA" - WEDNESDAY, 29 JUNE 2022, 12:34

At the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Russian invaders are planning to drain the cooling pools while searching for fictitious weapons belonging to workers, which could create a nuclear danger.

Source: National Atomic Energy Generating Company Energoatom, on Telegram

Quote: "The invaders, who are at the ZNPP, are going to accuse the Ukrainian nuclear power plant workers of storing weapons within the territory of the plant. For this purpose, several plant workers were detained and tortured to coerce a confession (or rather to accept blame) that back in March, they had dropped some weapons, explosives or shells, into the concrete basins of the cooling pools at ZNPP."

Details: Under this pretext, Russian invaders want to drain the cooling pools to check the basins and to stop the pumps that supply water to the safety systems of the power units.

Energoatom emphasises that if ZNPP is left without cooling, it could become a threat to nuclear safety due to the risk of overheating and equipment failure, especially in the current heat.

Also, no one can be certain that the occupiers would not themselves deposit explosives, shells, etc. into the concrete basins, later accusing the plant workers of creating an emergency.

Previously: On 16 June, the occupiers informed the heads of ZNPP structural subdivisions that Russia wanted to put the nuclear power plant under the control of Rosatom (Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation) from 1 September.