The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that in the cooling tower of the occupied Zaporizhzhia NPP, where a fire broke out the day before, no remains of car tires were allegedly found.
This is stated in a report on the IAEA website.
IAEA observers, who are at the Zaporizhzhia NPP, visited the cooling tower where a powerful fire raged on Sunday, August 11.
The IAEA said that a visual analysis showed that the damage was concentrated in the inner part of the cooling tower at the level of the distribution water nozzles. They are located at a height of approximately 10 meters.
During a visit to the structure, IAEA observers found drops of burnt plastic and fragments of destroyed concrete in a pool of cold water.
At the same time, it is claimed that the agency's observers also assessed the smell left after the fire in the cooling tower. An odor consistent with burning plastic was identified.
The IAEA emphasized that during the inspection of the cooling tower observers did not find any tire remains or fragments of drones.
The agency admitted that it is not yet able to make any final conclusion. The observers intend to continue their analysis, and therefore are waiting for the russians to give them access to the distribution level of the water nozzles and the cold water pool.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on the evening of August 11 in Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk Region, large plumes of black smoke were reported rising above one of the two cooling towers of the Zaporizhzhia NPP.
The fire at the base of the cooling tower continued until the morning of the next day. This extraordinary event did not lead to an increase in the radiation background level in the area of the station.
The russian occupiers almost immediately rushed to blame Ukraine for the fire at the nuclear plant controlled by the russian army. Allegedly, the fire started after shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
It will be recalled that russian military analyst Yan Matveev called the fire at the Zaporizhzhia NPP a "stupid provocation" by the occupiers, since there is nothing in the building that could burn like that.
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