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Geoff Brumfiel

Here's why the risk of a nuclear accident in Ukraine has 'significantly increased'

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has been cut off from the electricity grid since September 5. Nuclear plants require power to keep their reactors cool. (ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency is warning that the risk of a nuclear accident at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has "significantly increased," following ongoing fighting around the site.

"Let me be clear, the shelling around Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant must stop," IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said in a brief recorded statement released on Friday.

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