Military analyst Sean Bell says the success of the Wagner Group resulted in friction between the mercenaries and the regular Russian army.
Senior officers within the military group continue to use high-profile military events, including the dam blast, to criticise Russian defence forces, according to the Institute of the Study of War. The tensions between Vladimir Putin and the Wagner Group continue to rise. This pond can keep the nuclear plant cool for several months, the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi, has said previously.īut he told Sky News yesterday: "Certainly there is a danger, perhaps in a few weeks or months, but something needs to be done."Įnergoatom's spokesperson said the plant's reactors were in cold shutdown, but a nuclear expert said on Tuesday they were not the "main risk" posed by declining water levels.Ĭhair of the Nuclear Consulting Group, Paul Dorfman, said he was concerned for the plant's nuclear waste cooling ponds, which could "release significant radiation pollution" if water levels at the Kakhovka reservoir dropped too low for too long. They told NBC a separate cooling pond is at 16.6m and is "enough to meet the needs of the plant".
Plant operator insists there is 'enough' waterīut a spokesperson for Energoatom, which operates the nuclear power plant, dismissed the report and said the water level is stable, citing a height of 12.9m at the reservoir this morning at 11am. He told Interfax the dam was "destroyed to the very base" and forecasted the water level will drop to 3m - the height of the Dnipro river before the dam was constructed. Ihor Syrota, head of Ukrhydroenergo, which operates the Khakovka reservoir, said the water level was 12.5m high this evening - below the 12.7m "dead point" when pumps stop being able to draw water to serve the six nuclear reactors and nuclear waste at the Zaporizhzhia power station. The energy companies running the dam and the plant appear to disagree on the consequences for the Zaporizhzhia power station after the dam breach at Khakovka earlier this week. Has the water level at the Khakovka reservoir fallen too low to cool Europe's largest nuclear power plant?
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