Nuclear plant came close to ‘radiation disaster’, says Zelenskiy, amid calls for urgent UN visit
by Emma Graham-Harrison and Isobel Koshiw in Kyiv, an from Environment | The Guardian on (#62XPE)
Warning comes after the last regular line supplying electricity to Ukraine's Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was temporarily cut
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said the world narrowly avoided a radiation disaster" as the last regular line supplying electricity to Ukraine's Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was restored hours after being cut by shelling.
The Ukranian president said officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN's nuclear watchdog, must be given urgent access to the site.
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