Strikes at Ukrainian nuclear plant ‘alarming’, says UN watchdog chief
by David Connett from Environment | The Guardian on (#627VC)
Head of International Atomic Energy Agency says shelling at Zaporizhzhia plant underlines very real risk of a nuclear disaster'
The UN nuclear watchdog has called for an immediate end to all military action near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after it was hit by shelling, causing one of the reactors to shut down and creating a very real risk of a nuclear disaster".
Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said he was extremely concerned" by reports of damage at the plant and called for IAEA experts to be allowed to inspect the damage.
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