Ukrainian officials called for a cease-fire on Wednesday after warning that the sole electrical grid supplying the Chernobyl nuclear power plant had been damaged amid the combat around Kyiv.
—exhausted sources of nuclear energy that remain radioactive decades after use—are not continuously cooled., some experts say that the impact of Russia’s war on the plant is not yet cause for panic.a nuclear energy expert who previously served on the governing board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a global security and scientific nonprofit, toldthat Ukraine’s catastrophic warnings on Wednesday are “very much an overstated danger.
Likewise, the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency , offered a measuredto Ukraine’s nuclear-disaster assertions, writing on Wednesday morning that it has seen “no critical impact on safety” despite the incident violating the “key safety pillar on ensuring uninterrupted power supply.” The IAEA also noted that the damaged electrical grid “does not provide power” to the plant’s safety-related equipment.
One authority who does appear to share some of the concerns of Ukrainian officials is a nuclear expert familiar with “the plant’s system,” who spoke to. That expert told the outlet that loss of power at CNPP can potentially be “very dangerous” and “lead to significant radiation releases.
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