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Daniel Keane

Nuclear safety watchdog loses contact with Zaporizhzhia power plant in Ukraine after capture by Russian forces

The Zaporizhzhia plant is the largest of its kind in Europe (File)

(Picture: AP)

The world’s nuclear safety watchdog has lost contact with the captured Zaporizhzhia power plant in Ukraine, just hours after warning of a potential disaster in Chernobyl.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IEAA) said it was unable to access data from systems installed at both plants to monitor nuclear material after they were seized by Russian forces.

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