4 reactor displaced 200,000 people in what was then the Soviet Union, left 93,000 square miles of land uninhabitable and has had myriad consequences for people across the region, and across generations.Īccording to the U.S. The Chernobyl disaster still looms large in the collective memory of Ukrainians and the world. How does Zaporizhzhia compare to Chernobyl? "The complete resolution is for Russians to get out, to implement the recommendations of the IAEA, and to demilitarize the plant… That will bring their safety," she said. Oksana Markarova stressed that shutting down the reactor was a forced decision for her country, "not a complete resolution." Speaking on CBS' "Face The Nation," Ukraine's Ambassador to the U.S.
"Russia is playing Russian roulette with a nuclear incident," Barbara Woodward, Britain's Ambassador to the United Nations, told the U.N. and Ukraine's governments, said the Russian military should return "full control of the facility to Ukraine." The IAEA called for all military vehicles and equipment currently on the sprawling nuclear compound to be removed and for the facility to be made into a demilitarized zone. Credit: Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks to press members before leaving from the hotel with delegation to inspect the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine on September 01, 2022. "So when you've got it happening once or twice a week … the chances of further problems increase exponentially."Īfter the shutdown, Zaporizhzhia will enter a "cold state," according to Ukrainian nuclear operator Energoatom. to have to go on emergency power might happen once or twice in a decade," said de Bretton-Gordon. "Once you lose the main power supply, you're almost in a two-engine airplane which loses one engine, and then you're in a bad position." "If the power goes off, we're then reliant on fairly elderly diesel generators to run the safety systems," Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, an expert in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons, told CBS News. Zaporizhzhia does have diesel generators to switch on when the primary electricity supply is cut, but they are not a long-term solution. A stable electricity supply is essential for any nuclear power plant to maintain cooling systems for radioactive fuel. What's driving fears of a disaster at Zaporizhzhia?Įarlier this week, with continued shelling around the plant repeatedly cutting access to the electricity grid, plans were announced to shut down Zaporizhzhia's last working reactor. 22, 2022 shows the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
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