{"id":35141,"date":"2023-05-05T01:14:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T01:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/russia-says-high-waters\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T01:16:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T01:16:13","slug":"russia-says-high-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/russia-says-high-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia says high waters threaten dam near Ukrainian nuclear plant &#8211; Tass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211;     Record high water levels could overwhelm a major dam in southern Ukraine and damage parts of the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, a Russian official told Tass agency on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Renat Karchaa, an adviser to the general director of nuclear energy firm Rosenergoatom, said if the Nova Kakhovka dam did rupture, the power cable line for the Zaporizhzhia plant&#8217;s pumping stations would be flooded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This (would create) functional problems for the operation of the plant and risks for nuclear safety,&#8221; he told Tass.<\/p>\n<p>Last November, after Russian forces withdrew from the nearby southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, satellite imagery showed significant new damage to the dam.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides have accused each other of planning to breach the dam using explosives, which would flood much of the area downstream and would likely cause major destruction around Kherson.<\/p>\n<p>Karchaa&#8217;s comments represent a significant contrast from those made in late March by Ukrainian officials, who said they feared the Zaporizhzhia facility could face a shortage of water to cool reactors by late summer because Russian forces had let water out of a reservoir that supplied the plant.<\/p>\n<p>Russian troops took over the plant as they invaded parts of Ukraine last year. It is at the centre of a nuclear security crisis due to near-constant shelling in its vicinity which Kyiv and Moscow blame on each other.   <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by David Ljunggren; Editing by Sandra Maler)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/russia-says-high-waters\/a-view-shows-the-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4400M-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4400M-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Record high water levels could overwhelm a major dam in southern Ukraine and damage parts of the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, a Russian official told Tass agency on Thursday. Renat Karchaa, an adviser to the general director of nuclear energy firm Rosenergoatom, said if the Nova Kakhovka dam did rupture, the power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":35142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4400M-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35143,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35141\/revisions\/35143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}