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A fire caused by shelling at the Zaporiza nuclear power plant, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, located in southeastern Ukraine, temporarily halted all power transmission.

The Zaporiza nuclear power plant has been under Russian control since March, and the risk of radiation leakage is increasing as military clashes continue in the vicinity.

There are concerns that it could lead to a major disaster.



Kwak Sang-eun is a correspondent in Paris.



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reason that all electricity connected to the Zaporiza nuclear power plant in Ukraine was cut off is because a nearby mountain was set on fire by shelling, and the fourth power transmission line connecting the power plant and the outside was damaged.



There are four power lines in the Japoriza nuclear power plant, but three have already been cut off due to this war.



It is said that the crisis of radioactive material leakage has barely been overcome as power plant employees havetily turned on the diesel generator to resume power supply to the nuclear reactor.



[Zelensky/President of Ukraine: Russia is putting Ukraine and the whole of Europe on the brink of a radioactive disaster.]



If the power supply for cooling the reactor is not properly supplied, 'meltdown', that is, the worst nuclear power plant in which the nuclear fuel rods of the reactor melt There is a concern that it could lead to an accident.



[Petro Kotin/Chairman of the Ukrainian State Nuclear Power Plant: (Are you saying that a nuclear reactor meltdown can happen?) Yes, it is.] The



Zaporiza nuclear power plant has been under Russian control since March of this year, and fighting has continued in the vicinity.



Russia claims the incident was caused by Ukrainian artillery shelling.



Amid growing concerns from the international community, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has announced that it is in talks with Russia and will send an inspection team to Zaporiza as early as "in a few days."



In the midst of this, Russia announced that it would amend the presidential decree to increase the number of troops from the current 1,110,000 to 1.15 million starting next year.



As the war prolongs, it is evaluated that the Russian military is struggling with a decrease in morale and accumulation of fatigue among its soldiers.



(Video coverage: Kim Si-nae, video editing: Jeon Min-gyu)