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France activates crisis cell at ASN nuclear watchdog after fire at Ukraine nuclear plant

FILE PHOTO: France's Ecological Transition Minister Barbara Pompili leaves following the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, February 15, 2022. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

France has activated the crisis cell at its ASN nuclear watchdog body after an earlier fire at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine, French Energy Minister Barbara Pompili said on Friday.

Pompili added in a tweet that no changes regarding radiation levels had been signalled.

Russian forces seized the largest nuclear power plant in Europe after a building at the complex was set ablaze during intense fighting with Ukrainian defenders, local authorities said. Fears of a potential nuclear disaster at the Zaporizhzhia plant spread alarm across world capitals before authorities said the fire in a building identified as a training centre had been extinguished.

(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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