Fifteen shells were fired at the station’s premises, Russian news agency TASS reported.
Ukraine’s Russian-controlled Zaporizhia nuclear power plant has been bombed by Ukrainian forces, but no radiation leak has been detected, the TASS news agency reported, citing an official from Russia’s nuclear power agency Rosenergoatom.
Fifteen shells were fired at the plant’s facilities, Russian news agency TASS reported today, citing Renat Karchaa, an adviser to Rosenergoatom’s CEO.
“They bombed not only yesterday, but also today, they are bombarding right now,” the official said, adding that any artillery attack on the facility is a threat to nuclear security.
Kartsaa said the shells were fired near a dry nuclear waste storage facility and a building housing spent nuclear fuel, adding that no radioactive emissions have been detected so far, according to TASS.
Ukrainian officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The area of ​​the Zaporizhia station, which Russia seized shortly after it invaded Ukraine, has been repeatedly bombed, with Kyiv and Moscow blaming each other for attacks that could trigger a nuclear accident.
The station, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, provided about a fifth of Ukraine’s electricity before Russia’s February 24 invasion, and was forced to run on backup generators several times.
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