The level of the water reservoir of the Kakhovka dam, in southern Ukraine, is no longer sufficient to cool the reactors of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, the operator of that structure announced Thursday.
The water level, “below the critical limit of 12.7 meters”, is no longer sufficient to supply “the basins of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant” for cooling operations, explained the head of the Ukrainian operator Ukrhydroenergo Igor Syrota. .
The destruction of the dam caused an abrupt fall of torrents of water down the course of the Dnieper River, forcing several thousand people to leave the flooded areas and raising fears of an ecological catastrophe.
Source: TSF
