Zaporizhzhya is the world’s largest nuclear power plant. It is located in an area occupied by Russians since March. It has been operated by Ukrainian management until now. Now Putin wants to take over control. – The government will ensure that the nuclear facilities at the plant are integrated as federal property, says the order that Putin signed on Wednesday. The nuclear power plant is located close to the front line in the south of the country. For several months there has been fighting dangerously close to the power plant. Currently, none of the six reactors is in use. – The Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant is now on Russian territory. It should therefore be run under the control of our agencies, said Deputy Defense Minister Sergej Vershinin, according to the Russian news agency RIA. The nuclear power plant is located close to the front line in the south of the country. For several months, there have been battles dangerously close to the power plant. Photo: STRINGER / AFP New sanctions The Ukrainian authorities want the world to react to the Russian takeover of the power plant. Mykhailo Podolyak is an adviser to President Zelenskyj. He writes on Twitter that sanctions should be introduced against the state-owned Russian nuclear power supplier Rosatom. He demands that all cooperation with Rosatom be put on hold and that all cooperation on nuclear power with Russia be terminated. Ukrainian authorities want sanctions on the state-owned Russian company Rosatom. Photo: Nicolae Dumitrache / AP Kidnapped boss Last weekend, the Ukrainian head of the power plant Ihor Murashov was arrested and abducted by Russian forces. According to the Ukrainian energy agency Energoatomo, he was stopped, blindfolded and taken to an unknown location. Murashov was released three days later. It is not known where he was and what he was exposed to. Energoatom wrote that the incident puts the operational reliability of the nuclear power plant at risk. – I welcome the release of Ihor Murashov, the general director of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant Zaporizhzhya. I have received confirmation that Murashov has returned safely to his family, tweeted the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi. – The access to external electricity makes the situation extremely precarious. We currently have access to electricity, but it is fragile, Rossi told the Energy Intelligence Forum in London. Photo: Andriy Andriyenko / AP IAEA on its way from Ukraine to Moscow The Atomic Energy Agency is concerned that fighting near the reactors could lead to a nuclear disaster. – The access to external electricity makes the situation extremely precarious. We currently have access to electricity, but it is fragile, Grossi told the Energy Intelligence Forum in London. Grossi reports that he is on his way to Kyiv to discuss a safety zone around the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. – We are on our way to Kyiv for important meetings, writes the IAEA director on Twitter on Wednesday evening. Later this week, Grossi will travel to Moscow to talk about this situation.
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