UN nuclear watchdog concerned over water levels at Ukraine plant

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The UN atomic watchdog said on Sunday (Jun 11) that it needs wider access around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant to check 'a significant discrepancy' in water level data at the breached Kakhovka dam use

Both the Kakhovka hydropower dam and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant have been occupied by Russia since the early days of its invasion in February 2022.

The water from the reservoir is used to cool the facility's six reactors and spent fuel storage, the IAEA said. "It is possible that this discrepancy in the measured levels is caused by an isolated body of water separated from the larger body of the reservoir," Gross said in the statement."But we will only be able to know when we gain access to the thermal power plant."

Grossi said the thermal power plant"plays a key role for the safety and security of the nuclear power plant a few kilometres away," hence the need for access and independent assessment. The agency has said earlier that the Zaporizhzhia plant can fall back on other water sources when the reservoir's water is no longer available, including a large cooling pond above the reservoir with several months' worth of water.

 

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