The State Atomics Agency has not noted any disturbing indications of measuring apparatus. Currently, there is no danger to human wellness and life and the environment in Poland – the agency informed on Monday.
‘The State Atomics Agency has not noted any disturbing indications of measuring apparatus. Currently, there is no threat to human wellness and life and to the environment in Poland. We are monitoring the radiation situation in the country," said the agency on the X profile (formerly Twitter).
In the afternoon, PAA published a message stating that the current radiation situation in the country is average and there is no radiological threat.
"The State Atomics Agency is constantly monitoring the country's radiation situation (24h/7). As part of national radiation monitoring, early detection stations for radioactive contamination do not study alarming indications. Therefore, there is presently no threat to atomic safety in Poland – the radiation situation is normal" - she indicated in the PAA communication. The Agency recalled that the results of radiation monitoring are available on its website.
The PAA added that the Ukrainian atomic surveillance provided information that there was a fire at the site of the decommissioned power plant. The PAA indicated that the ionising radiation at the site of the power plant remained average and that the global Atomic Energy Agency, whose experts are at the Zaporoska atomic Power Plant, did not have a negative impact on the atomic safety of the power plants.
"The IAEA squad reported the anticipation of harm by a drone of 1 of the cold chimneys of the Zaporoska atomic Power Plant. The dam power plant has 2 specified cold stores – the possible harm to 1 of them does not straight affect the safety of the six atomic reactors located on the site of the power plant", explained the Communication.
The PAA reported that a cooling chimney or another heat discharge strategy is essential for the operation of atomic power plants erstwhile the reactor is moving and erstwhile the power plant produces electricity. However, she stressed that this cold store was not essential to guarantee atomic safety and radiation protection, as "the heat produced by atomic fuel from the off-fired power plant is safely discharged into the environment by systems independent of cold stores".
Zaporoska Elektrownia Jądrowa is located about 840 km from the Polish border. This, according to the PAA, long distance and distance itself provides protection against the effects of a possible radiation event. The process of dilution of contaminations in the atmosphere (the further, the lower their concentration) and the meteorological conditions associated with the location of the power plant (direction and wind speed, precipitation) are besides crucial for the safety of Poland. Additionally, the reactors at the Zaporoska atomic Power Plant have long been dead.
On Sunday evening, Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelenski reported that "Russians set fire at the Refrigerated Fire in the Refrigerated Firehouse of Zaporoska Atomic Power Plant". The Russian side declared that the fire triggered the fire that the Ukrainian troops made.
On Sunday night on Monday, quoted by Reuter, the Russian press agency TASS, informed – citing the Russian atomic energy agency Rosatom – that the main fire at the Zaporoza Atomic Power Plant was extinguished. On Monday, on Telegram, the head of the Dzepropietrowski Oblast, Serhij Łysak, informed that the fire in the power plant had stopped, and the radiation level in the area controlled by Ukraine and located close this city gym Nikopol's normal.
The dam atomic Power Plant, the largest atomic gym in Europe, has been occupied by Russia since the beginning of March 2022. Russian soldiers are stationed on the premises, and there are besides employees of the Russian state-owned Rosatom group. For the last 2 and a half years, Russian troops have repeatedly shelled the site of the power plant, thus creating – in the opinion of the authorities in Kiev – a radiation threat with hard to foretell consequences. (PAP)
