{"id":17729,"date":"2024-04-08T13:47:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T13:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/08\/russian-controlled-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-reactor-damaged-following-drone-attack\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T13:47:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T13:47:21","slug":"russian-controlled-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-reactor-damaged-following-drone-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/08\/russian-controlled-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-reactor-damaged-following-drone-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear reactor damaged following drone attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine was damaged Sunday in a drone attack, the International Atomic Energy Agency said, calling the strike \u201ca serious incident (with) potential to undermine integrity of the reactor\u2019s containment system.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            In a statement posted to X, the IAEA stressed that the damage at the Russian-controlled facility \u201chas not compromised nuclear safety.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The drone attack included three direct hits against the facility\u2019s main reactor containment, the agency\u2019s director-general, Rafael Grossi, said on X. One person died as a result of the attack, he added.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cThis is a clear violation of the basic principles for protecting Europe\u2019s largest (nuclear power plant). Such reckless attacks significantly increase the risk of a major nuclear accident and must cease immediately,\u201d Grossi said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Russian authorities accused the Ukrainian military of carrying out a series of attacks against the plant using \u201cself-exploding\u201d drones, according to a statement posted on ZNPP\u2019s official Telegram channel.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            A truck unloading food was damaged, and another hit was registered in the cargo port area of the facility, according to the ZNPP statement.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cShelling of Zaporizhzhia NPP and its infrastructure is unacceptable. No nuclear power plant in the world is designed to withstand full-fledged fire from the armed forces.<br \/>Damage to infrastructure facilities may affect the safe operation of the NPP,\u201d the statement added, using an acronym for the nuclear power plant.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Following Russia\u2019s accusations, Ukraine denied any involvement in the attack, the spokesperson for the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, Andriy Yusov, told Ukrainian news outlet Ukrainska Pravda.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cThe aggressor state is once again endangering the nuclear facility, civilians and the environment of the whole of Europe,\u201d Yusov said, according to Ukrayinska Pravda.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cNo one can conceivably benefit or get any military or political advantage from attacks against nuclear facilities. This is a no go. I firmly appeal to military decision makers to abstain from any action violating the basic principles that protect nuclear facilities,\u201d Grossi said.    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine was damaged Sunday in a drone attack, the International Atomic Energy Agency said, calling the strike \u201ca serious incident (with) potential to undermine integrity of the reactor\u2019s containment system.\u201d In a statement posted to X, the IAEA stressed that the damage at the Russian-controlled facility \u201chas not compromised <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}