Video footage showed staff mounting a screen of what appeared to be a type of transparent sheet on wires over dozens of concrete cylinders about 16 feet high.
MOSCOW (AP) — A shield is being installed over a spent nuclear waste storage site at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine to protect it from bombing and drones, a Russian-based official said Saturday.
Video footage released by Vladimir Rogov, a Russian-appointed official in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia province, showed staff mounting a screen of what appeared to be a type of transparent sheet on wires over dozens of concrete cylinders about five meters (16 feet) high.
“For now, he will oppose shrapnel and IEDs (improvised explosive devices) introduced via drones. But then it will be substantial,” he said.
The fight over Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in 10 months of standoff has raised fears of a imaginable nuclear disaster similar to Chernobyl.
Kyiv and Moscow have accused others of recklessly bombing the plant, whose six reactors are all offline.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a call to reporters on Tuesday that Russia remains in contact with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which will negotiate a demilitarized zone around the plant.
Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s permanent representative to foreign organizations in Vienna, told news firm TASS on Saturday: “It is too early to say that we will reach an agreement. And I wouldn’t wait for when the negotiation procedure will be finalized. “
(Reporting via Vladimir Soldatkin; Editing via Kevin Liffey)
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