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‘The UK would raise this issue immediately with Russia,’ they added. In response to the attack, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of ‘nuclear terror’ while British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will seek an emergency UN Security Council meeting in the coming hours, a Downing Street spokeswoman said. The IAEA said plant personnel were ‘taking mitigatory actions’.

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The IAEA said on Friday it was putting its Incident and Emergency Centre ‘in full 24/7 response mode due to serious situation.’

Rafael Grossi, the IAEA director, tweeted in the early hours of Friday that he was ‘deeply concerned’ by the situation, and called for an urgent end to the fighting around the plant. The International Atomic Energy Agency said, around the time the fire was extinguished at dawn, that the country’s nuclear officials said the fire has not affected ‘essential’ equipment. Nuclear experts were cautioning about overstating the danger, emphasizing that Chernobyl was a very different situation and accusing the country’s foreign minister of sparking unnecessary alarm by invoking the specter of an explosion ten times worse than the 1986 disaster. He said there is nuclear fuel inside, however.įirefighters could not get near the fire because they are being shot at, Tuz said.Ī live feed from the station showed a line of military vehicles firing at buildings at the nuclear plant, causing flames to break out at the site – sparking fears of a radiation disaster in the nation currently under invasion by Russian forces. He told Ukrainian television that shells were falling directly on the Zaporizhzhia plant, but the reactor on fire was under renovation and not operating, AP reported. ‘There is a real threat of nuclear danger in the biggest atomic energy station in Europe,’ he said. Several hours earlier Andriy Tuz, a spokesperson for the Zaporizhzhia plant, said in a video posted on Telegram that one of the six reactors was on fire, but the reactor was not in use. There are no dead or injured,’ the statement said. ‘At 06:20 the fire at the Zaporizhzhia NPP training building in Enerhodar was extinguished. Ukrainian State Emergency Service confirmed on Friday that the blaze at the facility 350 miles south of Kyiv was out shortly before daybreak. These are tanks equipped with thermal imagers, so they know what they are aiming at.’Įurope’s largest nuclear plant was on fire in the early hours of Friday morning after coming under attack by Russian troops – a fire that was put out by dawn, but that experts said still posed dangerous challenges. ‘Russian tanks are shooting at the nuclear blocks. The biggest nuclear power plant in Europe is on fire right now. ‘The terrorist state now resorted to nuclear terror,’ he said in the video message. ‘No country other than Russia has ever fired on nuclear power units. ‘You know the word Chernobyl,’ he said in a video posted on Friday morning, calling on Russia to stop its attack on a nuclear power plant 350 miles south of Kyiv.