The UN atomic watchdog said that it needs wider access around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant to check ‘a significant discrepancy’ in water-level data at the breached Kakhovka dam used for cooling the plant's reactors
A view shows Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant from the bank of Kakhovka Reservoir near the town of Nikopol after the Nova Kakhovka dam breached, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine June 9, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer
"However, the height is reportedly continuing to fall elsewhere in the huge reservoir, causing a possible difference of about two metres," Grossi said in a statement.The destruction of the Kakhovka hydropower dam in southern Ukraine last week has flooded towns downstream and forced thousands of people from their homes.
The water from the reservoir is used to cool the facility's six reactors and spent fuel storage, the IAEA said.
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