Nuclear expert Drábová: no nuclear safety threat from Kakhovka dam flooding at present

A further drop in the water level of the destroyed Ukrainian Kakhovka dam should not present a nuclear safety threat in the coming weeks or months, according to the head of the Czech State Office for Nuclear Safety Dana Drábová. Water from the dam is used to cool the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. Drabova said the plant’s reactors are now shut down and cooling is provided from a special tank. Moreover, she said past stress tests conducted at the plant had showed that it could be cooled even without water in the Kakhovka dam.