More than 2,000 staff still work at the plant as it requires constant management to prevent another nuclear disaster. The plant sits inside an exclusion zone that houses decommissioned reactors as well as radioactive waste facilities. The situation for the staff at Chernobyl 'was worsening,' it said, citing the Ukrainian nuclear regulator. On Tuesday it had voiced concern for staff working under Russian guard at the site. The IAEA said in a tweet that while the development 'violates key safety pillar,' in this case it saw 'no critical impact on safety.' On Wednesday Kyiv's energy operator Ukrenergo said on Facebook the station 'was fully disconnected from the power grid.' Russian forces shelled and captured the Zaporizhzhia plant on March 4, causing a fire that raised alarm in Europe of a possible nuclear catastrophe.Įarlier, on the day Russia invaded Ukraine, its troops seized the defunct Chernobyl plant, site of a 1986 disaster that killed hundreds and spread radioactive contamination west across Europe. The news from the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster came as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said data transmission was also lost at the Zaporizhzhia atomic plant, Europe's largest. Power has been cut to the Chernobyl nuclear plant, Ukraine said Wednesday, but the UN's atomic watchdog said there was 'no critical impact on safety.'

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