The internal components of the fire-stroke cooling tower at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) were seriously damaged, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said on Tuesday.
Grossi made the statement after a staff member of the nuclear power plant took pictures of the damage situation in the cooling tower from the water nozzle distribution level, about 10 meters high from ground.
The IAEA said on the same day that its team at the ZNPP reviewed the evidence provided to them, with Grossi saying that the evidence had strengthened the agency's conclusion that the fire in the cooling tower did not start from the bottom.
The IAEA team had also requested access to another cooling tower at the nuclear power plant to view its internal structure, but due to air raid sirens, they were escorted back to a safe location.
According to Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, the cooling tower of the ZNPP was attacked by the Ukrainian forces, resulting in the tower catching fire on Sunday evening local time.
However, the Ukrainian side said on Sunday that Russia set fire to the nuclear power plant, and Russia should be held accountable for this.
Currently, the radiation levels at the nuclear power plant remain within normal limits.
The ZNPP is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and includes six power units with a total capacity of six gigawatts.
Internal components of cooling tower of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant seriously damaged: IAEA
Internal components of cooling tower of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant seriously damaged: IAEA
Internal components of cooling tower of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant seriously damaged: IAEA
Internal components of cooling tower of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant seriously damaged: IAEA
An industrial matchmaking event was held Sunday in Kunming, the provincial capital of southwest China's Yunnan, drawing over 330 billion yuan (over 46 billion U.S. dollars) in investment as the region seeks to attract emerging industries from outside the province. Themed "Sharing New Advantages of Industrial Transfer, Jointly Building a Highland of International Cooperation," the 2024 China Industrial Transfer and Development Matchmaking Activities (Yunnan) focused on drawing investment into key sectors like biomedicine and information industries in Yunnan, a region rich in energy and natural resources. Financial institutes like China Development Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and China Merchants Bank will provide financing services for key industrial transfer projects. "A large part of the signed industrial transfer projects is related to the biomedicine and comprehensive healthcare industry, the photovoltaic industry, the information industry, and the equipment manufacturing industry. So far, such signed projects total 903, with those of them working to strengthen, extend, and complete the industrial chains accounting for 40 percent, 20 percent, and 40 percent, respectively," said Shi Youlian, deputy director of the Department of Industry and Information Technology of Yunnan Province. The matchmaking event plays a significant role in helping enterprises up and down the supply chain and the industrial chain to cooperate and building Yunnan into a pilot zone of industrial transfer and an industrial hub that connects South Asia and Southeast Asia, said Jin Zhuanglong, minister of industry and information technology. "We will push for a gradual industrial transfer from east to central and west China. We will support Yunnan to take advantage of its functional positioning and industrial foundation, absorb relocated industries, and boost the development of its characteristic and competitive industries like the industries of new energy, new materials and biomedicine in an effort to enhance the region's overall strength and capacity for achieving sustainable development," said Jin.
Yunnan holds matchmaking activity to boost transfer of industry
