{"id":133309,"date":"2024-08-28T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T04:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/un-fears-nuclear-incident-possible-at-russias-vulnerable-kursk-plant-after-drone-strikes\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T07:30:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T04:30:11","slug":"un-fears-nuclear-incident-possible-at-russias-vulnerable-kursk-plant-after-drone-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/un-fears-nuclear-incident-possible-at-russias-vulnerable-kursk-plant-after-drone-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"UN fears nuclear incident possible at Russia\u2019s \u2018vulnerable\u2019 Kursk plant after drone strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133309\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nInternational Atomic Energy Agency raises the alarm about the Kursk plant\u2019s vulnerable nuclear reactor as war rages nearby. The United Nations&#8217; nuclear watchdog chief warned on Tuesday of heightened risk at the nuclear power plant in Kursk, Russia, where Ukraine has been conducting a military counteroffensive.<\/p>\n<p>International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi led the mission to the nuclear site after Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed it came under fire following Ukraine&#8217;s incursion into the region. Kyiv has denied accusations that it targeted the plant. \u201cThe danger or the possibility of a nuclear accident has emerged near here,\u201d Grossi told reporters, according to Reuters. He added that during his visit of the plant he saw evidence of drone strikes in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was informed about the impact of the drones. I was shown some of the remnants of them and signs of the impact they had,\u201d Grossi said, without saying who was responsible. He warned that the nuclear reactor at the Kursk plant doesn&#8217;t have a protective dome, unlike most nuclear facilities, making its core very vulnerable to artillery or drone strikes. &#8220;The core of the reactor containing nuclear material is protected just by a normal roof, he said during his visit. &#8220;This makes it extremely exposed and fragile, for example, to an artillery impact or a drone or a missile.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A nuclear power plant of this type, so close to a point of contact or a military front, is an extremely serious fact that we take very seriously.&#8221; Despite the ongoing conflict, the power station is operating \u201cin very close to normal conditions,\u201d according to Grossi. \u201cMy message is the same for everyone: no nuclear accident can happen. It is our responsibility to make sure of that,\u201d Grossi said at the news conference, adding that the agency won&#8217;t take sides in the Russian-Ukrainian war. \u201cThis conflict, this war, is not the responsibility of the IAEA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The war that reignited following Russia&#8217;s all-out military assault on Ukraine, now in its third year, has been fraught with nuclear risks, with numerous instances of nuclear weapon saber-rattling and recklessness near energy-generating nuclear facilities. After the start of the conflict, Grossi worked to establish five principles to be respected by both Russia and Ukraine to ensure nuclear safety and avert an atomic catastrophe. Russia captured Ukraine&#8217;s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant at the start of its invasion and has repeatedly endangered the plant&#8217;s safety, drawing condemnation from Grossi.<\/p>\n<p>Grossi will travel to Ukraine next week to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and discuss \u201ca number of things,\u201d including the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and the presence of IAEA experts at other sites in Ukraine. The effects of world&#8217;s worst nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, Ukraine, in the 1980s are still felt to this day. Hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine were contaminated, and an area of around 30 kilometers around the plant remains essentially uninhabitable. Soviet authorities initially denied the scale of the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/un-international-atomic-energy-agency-rafael-grossi-nuclear-incident-russia-kursk-plant-drone-strikes-war-in-ukraine\/\">Politico<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/un-fears-nuclear-incident-possible-at-russias-vulnerable-kursk-plant-after-drone-strikes\/\">UN fears nuclear incident possible at Russia\u2019s \u2018vulnerable\u2019 Kursk plant after drone strikes<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,15865,9844,402],"class_list":["post-133309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-kursk","tag-nuclear-reactor","tag-un"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}