The safety situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in Ukraine remains precarious, with six of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s indispensable pillars of nuclear safety and security compromised, agency director-general Rafael Grossi said in a statement to the board of governors on 8 September.

Grossi said only one offsite power line remains, posing serious safety risks.

All six reactors at the facility, which is near the frontline of fighting between Russia and Ukraine and has been occupied by Russia since soon after its February 2022 invasion, are in cold shutdown and no reactor can safely be started under current conditions.