IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi believes there is enough water at the Zaporizhzhya NPP to cool the reactors for a month, TV channel reported. CNN.
“We calculated it was about a month’s warranty,” Grossi said.
He noted that in the area of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant and the city of Energodar, the water level drops by five to seven centimeters per hour. Water is the main coolant for the reactors of a nuclear power plant – without cooling, nuclear fuel heats the reactors, which can cause a disaster.
Former IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi declarationOvercoming the Kakhovskaya HEPP dam may leave the reactors of the Zaporizhzhya NPP without cooling in the medium term.
This scenario, in which reactor cooling was lost in 2011, led to a disaster at the Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima-1. However, Grossi noted that there is no reason to panic at this time.