A major Ukrainian dam was destroyed, unleashing a torrent of water that forced thousands to evacuate. The dam was located on the Dnipro River, and its collapse threatened to flood several towns and villages downstream.
The wrecked barrier held back a body of water equal in size to Utah’s Great Salt Lake, and the reservoir supplies water for the cooling of the Zaporizhzhia facility, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. The reservoir also serves as a key source of drinking water.a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.that “neither side offered immediate public evidence” to substantiate their accusations.
The International Atomic Energy Agency , which has been monitoring the Zaporizhzhia plant for months and vocally warning about ongoing threats to its integrity,Tuesday it was closely examining the fallout from the dam breach but there was “no immediate risk to the safety of the plant.” But Rafael Mariano Grossi, the IAEA’s director-general, stressed Tuesday that an “absence of cooling water in the essential cooling water systems for an extended period of time would cause fuel melt and inoperability of the emergency diesel generators” at Zaporizhzhia, which is currently controlled by Russian forces.
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