UN watchdog: Ukrainian nuclear plant loses power supply again, is ‘extremely vulnerable’

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog says Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has switched to emergency diesel generators after losing its external power supply for the seventh time since Russia’s full-scale invasion. It is his latest appeal for the area of the plant to be spared from the fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces. IAEA staff are deployed at the plant, which is occupied by Russian troops. The plant’s six nuclear reactors are protected by a reinforced shelter able to withstand an errant shell or rocket. But a disruption in the electrical supply could disable cooling systems essential for the reactors’ safety.