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KYIV (Reuters) – Europe’s nuclear power plant in Russian-occupied Ukraine faces a severe shortage of spare parts, threatening the security of its operations, Ukraine’s military intelligence firm said on Friday.
The plant in the southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia was occupied by Russian troops some time after their invasion on February 24, but the facility is still operated by Ukrainian technicians.
“A critical scenario has evolved in the factory matrix . . . in terms of making certain solid trades. There are almost no more spare portions and consumable materials,” defense intelligence from the Defense Ministry said.
The facility is controlled through week-long rotations of who gets rid of all their belongings and phones as soon as they start, he said in a statement.
Soviet-era Ukraine, the site of the world’s worst nuclear fate twist at its now-defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant north of Kyiv in 1986.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Friday paid for a three-day stopover at the Chernobyl military plant to ensure the protection of the war site in Ukraine and said it also wanted to make a stopover at the Zaporizhzhia plant.
“The director general is also advancing his efforts to organize an IAEA project for (the plant) to carry out vital nuclear safety, security and safeguards activities at this site in the south of the country,” he said on his website.
(Reporting via Natalia Zinets in Kyiv and François Murphy in Vienna; written via Tom Balmforth; editing via Hugh Lawson)