Urgent Nuclear Safety Crisis at Zaporizhzhia Highlights Kremlin’s Reckless Endangerment of Europe

In the heart of a relentless conflict fueled by Kremlin aggression, Ukraine’s most critical piece of energy infrastructure—the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant—faces a dire safety crisis. Since losing its external power supply more than a week ago, this colossal facility has depended solely on emergency diesel generators to sustain essential cooling systems for its six shutdown reactors and spent fuel storage. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi offers cautious reassurance that the situation has not yet escalated into an immediate disaster. Yet, his own words underscore the fragility: "it is clearly not a sustainable situation in...