No increase in radiation levels in Poland: agency

Poland's atomic energy agency said on Friday it had recorded no increase in radiation levels in the country after Russian troops seized a huge nuclear power plant in neighbouring Ukraine.

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The National Atomic Energy Agency (PAA) said in a statement that "there is currently no risk" to the Polish population.

It added that it was "constantly analyzing data from the national radiation monitoring system."

@PAAtomistyki na bieżąco analizuje dane otrzymywane z krajowego systemu monitoringu radiacyjnego. PAA nie odnotowała żadnych niepokojących wskazań aparatury pomiarowej. Obecnie na terenie RP nie ma zagrożenia dla zdrowia i życia ludzi oraz dla środowiska. pic.twitter.com/RWpwiKhSY9

— Państwowa Agencja Atomistyki (@PAAtomistyki) March 4, 2022

Its statement came after Ukrainian authorities said on Friday that Russian forces had seized the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in their country and that a building within the complex was set ablaze during intense fighting with Ukrainian defenders, according to a report by the Reuters news agency.

Fears of a potential nuclear disaster at the Zaporizhzhia plant, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, had raised alarm across the region before authorities said the fire, in a building identified as a training centre, had been extinguished, Reuters reported.

It quoted US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm as saying that there was no indication of elevated radiation levels at the plant, which provides more than a fifth of total electricity generated in Ukraine.

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Source: PAP, Reuters