Russians build illegal construction on Zaporizhzhya NPP’s territory

Source: State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine.

The message reads that the Inspectorate found "violations of the requirements of the Ukrainian legislation, norms, rules and standards of nuclear and radiation safety at the site of the storage of dry spent nuclear fuel, which is one of the seven nuclear installations at the Zaporizhzhya NPP, due to the construction of an unknown structure by the Russian occupiers near the storage.

The inspection prohibited the performance of construction, installation and commissioning work in the scope of reconstruction and modernization of the storage. In addition, the Inspectorate instructed National Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom to take measures to preserve the conditions necessary to ensure labor safety, protect the health of personnel and the environment.

• At the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Russian forces invalidate the worker permits of Ukrainian type. Russian occupiers are pressuring the Zaporizhia NPP workers to sign contracts with Rosatom, the State Atomic Energy Corporation of Russia.

• Russian troops provoked an environmental disaster at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, about a thousand tons of fish may die.