Ukraine prepares in case of nuclear incident

(29 Jun 2023) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Zaporizhzhia - 29 June 2023 1. State emergency service worker putting on gas mask during nuclear disaster elimination training 2. Various of emergency service workers training to clean cars from radiation 3. Emergency service worker in gas mask 4. Wide of emergency service workers cleaning car 5. Worker measuring level of radiation of car 6. Various of emergency service workers measuring level of radiation on people 7. Various of emergency service workers cutting man’s clothes and preparing man to be washed 8. Emergency service workers washing man 9. Various of emergency service workers covering man with plastic 10. Various of emergency service workers putting man in ambulance 11. Ambulance leaving 12. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Yurii Vlasenko, Deputy Minister of Energy: “Our radiation safety is monitored not only by departments under the Energoatom National Nuclear Power Company State Enterprise, but also by the Ministry of Environment and other services that control these processes. Unfortunately, we have a problem that we cannot properly control the occupied territory, and this is a big problem and a threat, which we have informed the (U.N.’s atomic energy watchdog) IAEA of.“ 13. Journalists at briefing 14. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Yurii Vlasenko, Deputy Minister of Energy: “We were preparing for dire consequences. That is, we will evacuate up to 300,000 people, but let’s hope that it will not get to this.“ 15. People who participated in training inside bus 16. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Kateryna, 28, Zaporizhzhia resident: “We are all worried, God forbid that it (a nuclear disaster) could happen. But after the training, we are more confident that our services will be able to control it and will be able to tell us that people will be protected.“ 17. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian), Kateryna, 28, Zaporizhzhia resident: “I love my country very much, I don’t want to leave, I don’t want to leave it. We believe in our guys who defend us (Ukrainian soldiers). We believe in them very much, we are very grateful to them, we bow to them. We believe that they can do everything, endure everything, and that everything will be fine. Everything will be Ukraine.“ (meaning: Ukraine is strong, will stand/win/continue to resist) 18. Passengers 19. Woman seated inside bus 20. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Larisa Horobchenko, 67, Zaporizhzhia resident: “We are appealing to the whole world, please help us stop this terrible disaster so that our children, our parents, do not die. Please, world, respond, help stop this terrible catastrophe.“ 21. Emergency service workers cleaning ambulance 22. Medics in radiation uniform STORYLINE: Ukraine, which saw the world’s worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl in 1986, is preparing for another possible nuclear disaster with training exercises held on Thursday. The training addresses the potential risk of radiation leakage from the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Dozens of people on the outskirts of the city of Zaporizhzhia, situated around 100 kilometers away from the plant, joined forces with local authorities to learn how to respond swiftly and effectively in case the radiation level increases as a result of damage to the plant. Emergency service workers in white and yellow protective suits, covering their entire bodies, washed vehicles with hoses and use dosimeters to measure radiation levels. People in civilian clothing, wearing masks, lined up one by one to have their radiation levels checked. Russia occupied the plant in the early stages of the war. Find out more about AP Archive: Twitter: Facebook: ​​ Instagram: You can license this story through AP Archive: