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Russian attacks create real danger of 'catastrophe' - Ukraine nuclear energy boss

Reuters WORLD
Published November 24,2022
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Petro Kotin, head of the Ukraine's state nuclear power company Energoatom, speaks during an interview with Reuters next to a picture of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (REUTERS File Photo)

Russia caused a "real danger of a nuclear and radioactive catastrophe" by launching attacks in which all Ukraine's nuclear reactors were disconnected from the power grid for the first time in 40 years, Ukraine's nuclear energy chief said.

Petro Kotin, head of nuclear power company Energoatom, said in a statement on Thursday the vast nuclear power plant in the Zaporizhzhia region had been reconnected to the national power grid after Russian air strikes on Wednesday, and that the backup diesel generators at the site had been turned off.