U.N. Security Council members raise alarm of nuclear risks following attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia power plant: United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members expressed alarm at the prospect of a nuclear incident in Ukraine, at an emergency meeting on Friday, convened hours after a training building at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant caught fire, as Russians moved in on the facility and seized control of it. The International Atomic Energy (IAEA) chief told the Council that no reactors had been damaged. Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson had said after the attack on the power plant that he would call for a UNSC meeting. Several western countries, including the U.S. and the U.K, spoke out against Russia for endangering nuclear facilities, while others — including India and China — more generally expressed alarm about the situation without blaming anyone in particular. “No security or safety systems have been compromised, ” said Director General of the IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi, based on information received via the agency’s contacts as well as directly from the power plant. Mr. Grossi, who joined the Council meeting via video link, from onboard a flight to Tehran, reactors were hit by the projectile which hit the training building. He expressed his willingness to travel to Chernobyl to establish a “stable framework” for the governance of the nuclear power plant. The plant was taken over by Russian forces last week — although it is still being run by Ukrainians. During his remarks, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UNPR) T.S. Tirumurti warned of the danger a nuclear incident. Quoting Albert Einstein as saying, “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything,” Mr. Kyslysta appeared to take a shot at those who did not condemn Russia in recent days. “Shamefully, there is a handful of those around us... or among us, rather,... who do nothing,” Mr. Kyslytsya said, presumably a reference to India and others who have consistently abstained during U.N. votes on the issue.
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