Russia on Monday said that the shelling of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant posed a nuclear accident threat as it accused Kyiv of the attacks on Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n
The concerns have been sparked after the plant — located in southern Ukraine, just 500 km from Chernobyl (the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986) — was repeatedly shelled in the past few days. Both the warring countries have blamed each other over the attacks on the plant.<\/p>\n
“The plant is at risk of a nuclear accident,” news agency Reuters quoted Alexei Likhachev, the director general of Russia’s Rosatom state nuclear corporation, as telling state-run news agency Interfax. “We were in negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) all night,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Russia on Monday said that the shelling of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant posed a nuclear accident threat as it accused Kyiv of the attacks on Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. The concerns have been sparked after the plant — located in southern Ukraine, just 500 km from Chernobyl (the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986) — was repeatedly shelled in the past few days. Both the warring countries have blamed each other over the attacks on the plant. “The plant is at risk of a nuclear accident,” news agency Reuters quoted Alexei Likhachev, the director general […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}