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Ukraine / No Immediate Need For Zaporizhzhia To Switch To Alternative Water Supplies, Says IAEA

By David Dalton
9 June 2023

Agency says backup sources can cool reactors and spent fuel ‘for several months’

No Immediate Need For Zaporizhzhia To Switch To Alternative Water Supplies, Says IAEA
An aerial view of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station shows the six units (bottom right), a cooling pond next to the station and the Dnieper river. The Nova Kakhovka dam is about 200 km downstream to the southwest and the Kakhovka reservoir is to the east. Courtesy Google Earth.
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station is continuing to pump cooling water from the Kakhovka reservoir even though the water level has reached the point at which it was previously estimated that the pumps could no longer operate, International Atomic Energy Agency director-general Rafael Grossi said on Thursday (8 June).

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