Russia claims taking over nuclear plant was due to safety reasons

Russia’s foreign ministry representative Maria Zakharova has said Russian soldiers held onto Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya thermal energy station to shield its atomic fuel and materials.

It is Europe’s greatest atomic plant, creating the greater part of Ukraine’s atomic power and 20% of the nation’s absolute power supply.

Russian powers shelled the Zaporizhzhia plant on 3 March and later assumed command. Presently only two of its six reactors are working.

In an explanation posted on the Russian foreign ministry site, Zakharova said: “We again stress that the setting under security by Russian military staff of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear station was legitimate according to the perspective of forestalling a break of atomic and radioactive materials at an atomic office that turned out to be in the zone of the extraordinary military activity.”

Her remarks came in light of an assertion from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it was looking to visit the plant to check plutonium and enhanced uranium was not being redirected to different purposes.

Zakharova excused the IAEA’s interests, saying the uranium was low-enhanced and plutonium was in spent fuel and couldn’t be isolated “without the utilization of very mind boggling gear that main a few nations have”.

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