Occupiers force Zaporizhzhia NPP workers to drain cooling pools

Now they are torturing the workers of the station's hydro department to come up with a justification for the need to drain the cooling pools.

It is reported by the TG channel of Energoatom

Thus, the invaders severely beat the diver of the ZNPP hydroshop Andrey Goncharuk, who was taken to the hospital in Energodar with numerous injuries yesterday, June 29, 2022.

Recall that the invaders are preparing a serious provocation at the temporarily occupied Zaporozhye NPP . In particular, they intend to accuse the Ukrainian nuclear scientists of storing weapons on the territory of the station. To do this, they detained several workers and tortured them to confess, or rather, to slander themselves that, allegedly, back in March, they dropped some kind of weapon into the concrete bowls of the cooling pools at the ZNPP: explosives or shells.

Under this pretext, the invaders insist on draining the cooling pools and checking its bowls, as well as stopping the pumps supplying water to the security systems of power units.

This could leave the units of Europe's largest nuclear power plant without cooling and is a serious violation and could threaten nuclear safety.

Then the invaders can throw anything they want into concrete bowls: explosives, unexploded shells, other weapons. And then blame the ZNPP workers or its defenders for this and make it a formal reason for inviting the IAEA to the station and presenting these “facts”.