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“Stress goes up a notch”: after the kidnapping of its director, the Zaporizhia power plant remains at the center of concerns

The director of the plant has still not been found since he was kidnapped by the Russian army on Friday. Employees, although trained for these types of situations, are under enormous pressure.

Kidnapped by the Russian army on Friday afternoon, the director of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant is still nowhere to be found. A disappearance that is not without consequences, since as boss, Igor Murachov is responsible for the security of the place. And if the reactors have been shut down as a precaution, the staff are under great pressure.

“It is the head (of the plant, editor’s note) that falls,” summarizes Emmanuelle Galichet, professor-researcher in nuclear physics at CNAM.

“I already give you internal directions that you need to report. The nuclear security is not in danger, more stress is on the mountain, and it is not good to go to the security of the central”, for her suit .

“Huge pressure” on plant employees

“The loss of their director raises questions about their state of mind and their ability to make immediate decisions. (…) For almost seven months, operators have been under enormous pressure, and that only makes the psychological situation worse,” he adds. Ludovic Dupin, information director of the French Energy Company, on BFMTV.

Despite everything, both Emmanuelle Galichet and Ludovic Dupin qualify the idea that intense stress on the part of the operators could be fatal for the management of the plant.

In fact, in the absence of a live reactor, their tasks are reduced to supervision, explains the teacher: “The plant was no longer in operation, its cooling is quite easy to do, so the role of the operators It’s simple monitoring. We are no longer at risk of a radioactive release into the atmosphere.”

Seven months under Russian control

However, he recalls, the resumption of fighting on the perimeter of the Zaporizhia power plant, under Russian control since March 4, would present significant risks.

Like any industrial object at risk, nuclear power plants are protected by the Geneva Convention: it specifically stipulates that they should therefore not be the object of attack. “Any industrial object can be at risk if you bomb it. We don’t have to fight over these objects,” concludes Emmanuelle Galichet.

Sent on an inspection mission to the heart of the plant, the International Atomic Energy Agency recalled a few days ago the extreme danger of the situation there, and called for the withdrawal of Russian forces.

Author: Elizabeth Fernandez
Source: BFM TV

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