IAEA: No immediate risk at Ukraine nuke plant after dam damage

Vienna, Austria

The UN’s nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday that it saw “no immediate nuclear safety risk” at Europe’s biggest atomic plant after a hydroelectric dam in southern Ukraine was damaged.

“The IAEA is aware of reports of damage at Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam; IAEA experts at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant are closely monitoring the situation; no immediate nuclear safety risk at plant,” the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a tweet.

The dam sits on the Dnipro river, which provides cooling water for the plant.

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