Zelenskyy and UN warn of heightened risk at Ukrainian nuclear plant

The plant is under Russian military control (AP)

Ukraine’s president and the head of the UN nuclear agency have warned over increased safety risks at the Russia-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine, which lost its external power supply more than a week ago as the war raged around it.

Emergency diesel generators are providing power for crucial cooling systems for the facility’s six shutdown reactors and spent fuel, and there is no immediate danger to Europe’s biggest nuclear plant, according to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director-general Rafael Mariano Grossi.