Russia Is Disregarding IAEA Advice to Power Down Ukraine Reactor
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Russian operators at an occupied nuclear plant in southern Ukraine continue to ignore requests from safety regulators to bring the last partly-operational reactor under their supervision into a state of full shutdown.
Ukraine nuclear-safety officials have repeatedly called in recent days on operators at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant to stop producing heat and steam at the sole reactor that hasn’t entered so-called cold shutdown. Water supplies needed for cooling have become increasingly tenuous following the June destruction of a hydropower dam that held water in a neighboring reservoir.