He said that at the station about a hundred containers are currently filled with spent fuel.
According to him, in case of their destruction, radiation will spread very quickly in the environment.
“Where the wind will send the products of this fire, only God knows.
If there is a group destruction of containers ... 20-30 pieces, radioactivity will affect about nine countries: these are Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, a number of Baltic countries [plus] the territory of Western Ukraine, ”explained Kuznetsov.
On August 15, the authorities of the Zaporozhye region announced that the Armed Forces of Ukraine in two hours delivered about 25 heavy artillery strikes on Energodar and the area of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.