Shelling Again Knocks Europe’s Biggest Nuke Plant Offline
Ukraine's energy secretary warns: "World is once again on the brink of nuclear disaster"
View Source | September 5, 2022 7:11 pm
- Shelling directed at or near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power has been going on for several week, in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
- Each side blames the other for the shelling, in a war that is now nearly 7 months old.
- The most recent shelling, Ukraine says, has brought down the plant’s last transmission line and it cannot be fixed anytime soon.
- Members of the International Atomic Energy Agency recently visit the plant, but Ukrainian Energy Secretary German Galushchenko said Monday the majority of the mission has left.
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