By Chris Muhizi Minembwe Capital News Tuesday June 5th/2023.
As of right now, the Moscow-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear , according to a statement made on Tuesday by Russia’s state nuclear energy business Rosatom, which said that the situation was being closely watched. However, the burst of a dam in southern Ukraine does represent a threat to the facility.
In an area of Ukraine’s Kherson region that is under the control of Russian forces, the Soviet-era Nova Kakhovka dam was blown up on Tuesday, releasing a wall of floodwater, and Ukraine and Russia both blamed the other of doing it.
A large area of the conflict zone was flooded on Tuesday, forcing civilians to escape as a torrent of water erupted through a gaping hole in a dam on the Dnipro River that separates Russian and Ukrainian forces in southern Ukraine.
By intentionally committing a war crime, Russia was charged by Ukraine with blowing up the dam from the inside.
Officials who had been appointed by Russia presented inconsistent explanations, with some blaming Ukrainian bombardment and others claiming the dam had burst on its own.
In the middle of the conflict zone, the dam’s destruction prompts a fresh humanitarian catastrophe and changes the front lines just as Ukraine launches a long-awaited counteroffensive to expel Russian forces.
The dam has been in Russian control since the beginning of the conflict, despite Ukrainian forces taking back the northern bank of the river last year. Each side had long charged the other with plotting its destruction.
“The safety of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is not now in danger. There are five units in “cold shutdown” and one in “hot shutdown” states. The cooling pond’s water level, which is 16.67 meters, has not altered, the man claimed.
According to Chernichuk, water cooling the storage pools for spent nuclear fuel at the facility is on a closed circuit and is not in direct touch with water flowing from the Kakhovka Reservoir.
He added that the heat removal system was not reliant on water from the reservoir and that it could be refilled from “several alternative sources.