LONDON
\nBritain said on Wednesday it would increase funding to the United Nations atomic watchdog by 750,000 pounds ($932,475) to support nuclear safety work in Ukraine.
\nUkraine\u2019s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Europe\u2019s largest, gets its cooling water from the reservoir of the Kakhovka dam which breached on Tuesday.
\nBritain said it had now provided 5 million pounds in total to support the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Ukraine since Russia\u2019s February 2022 invasion.
\nThe IAEA said on Tuesday that the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia plant in southern Ukraine has enough water to cool its reactors for \u201cseveral months\u201d from a pond located above the reservoir. It called for the pond to be protected.
\n\u201cRussia\u2019s barbaric attacks on Ukraine\u2019s civil infrastructure and its illegal control of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant runs contrary to all international nuclear safety and security norms,\u201d UK Permanent Representative to the IAEA Corinne Kitsell said.
\nThe breach unleashed flood waters across the war zone in what both Ukraine and Russia said was an intentional attack by the other\u2019s forces.
\n\u201cI commend the work of the IAEA\u2019s staff in Ukraine and I am pleased that the UK\u2019s additional funding will help to facilitate its vital work, particularly given the additional risk posed by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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