Chernobyl's nuclear power plant and all the facilities in the Chernobyl exclusion zone have been completely disconnected and are now without electricity, Ukraine's state energy company has announced.
Meanwhile, officials from the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency have expressed increasing concern for the well-being of the staff at Chernobyl, who have been held hostage at the plant for two weeks. Workers would usually leave the radioactive plant after work hours ended but have now been forced to live at the site.
Safeguards are the technical measures that the IAEA uses to keep track of nuclear material and ensure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. With these offline, the agency has no way of knowing the location of the plant's nuclear material, increasing the possibility that it could fall into the wrong hands.
"I'm deeply concerned about the difficult and stressful situation facing staff at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the potential risks this entails for nuclear safety," IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said in the statement.
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