Wait..., It's Only Posed To Be 6 Reactors At Zaporizhia - What's This 7th Reactor All About?

 snriu  |  The Russian Federation attacked the following nuclear installations and facilities in Ukraine:

• the radioactively contaminated 30-km Chornobyl Exclusion Zone and nuclear facilities on its territory, such as the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, spent nuclear fuel storage facilities, Ukrainian enterprise for storage and disposal of radioactive waste, more than 700 temporal storage sites with Chornobyl radioactive material (from February 24, 2022);
• the radioactive waste storage facility of the Kharkiv Inter-regional Branch of the Radon enterprise (February 26, 2022);
• the radioactive waste disposal facility of the Kyiv branch of the Radon enterprise (February 27, 2022);
• the site of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant with seven nuclear facilities on-site (March 3, 2022);
• numerous medical facilities, civilian industrial enterprises, and research institutions that used or manage radionuclide sources and radioactive material (systematic from February 24, 2022);
• the research nuclear installation “Neutron Source Based on a Subcritical Assembly Controlled by a Linear Electron Accelerator” with 37 loaded nuclear fuel cells in Kharkiv (systematic shelling from March 6, 2022);
• also military attacks of the Russian Federation on March 9, 2022, and afterwards resulted in blackouts at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant and other nuclear facilities in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone.

Obstruction by the Russian military of normal work and variability of personnel creates conditions for violation of radiation safety, creating a radiation threat.

The Russian Federation brutally violates international laws and nuclear and radiation safety requirements by committing military attacks on nuclear installations and other nuclear facilities that use radioactive material and radionuclide sources. By attacking Ukrainian nuclear installations, the Russian Federation also hinders the fulfilment of Ukrainian commitments under the Convention on Nuclear Safety, the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and Radioactive Waste, and the Agreement between Ukraine and the IAEA on the application of guarantees within the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The acts of nuclear terrorism of the aggressor threaten the lives and health of the civilian population in Ukraine and globally. Specifically, the Russian Federation violates: