Moscow, June 1 (EFE).- Any explosion at the nuclear plant at Zaporizhzhia, under Russian control since 2022, could trigger a nuclear accident, warned Alexey Likhachev, director general of Russia’s nuclear agency Rosatom, on Monday following recent attacks on the facility.
In an interview with Russian public television, he said that any explosion, any fire, meant the guaranteed loss of both the nuclear reactor’s electrical supply and cooling system, thereby setting the stage for a nuclear accident.
He added that a deliberate attack on Saturday on the turbine building of unit number 6 at the nuclear plant, which Moscow attributes to a Ukrainian drone, could have dangerous consequences.
Rosatom specialists and Russian military personnel have asserted that the attack, which didn’t damage the main equipment but caused a hole in the wall of the turbine building, was not accidental.
On Sunday, the Ukrainian foreign minister «firmly rejected» Russia’s accusations about the attack, describing them as another attempt to discredit Ukraine and conceal its own criminal acts.
