MOSCOW, August 13 — RIA Novosti. In the event of a radiation leak from the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, the North Crimean Channel will have to be closed again, said RIA Novosti Sergei Mukhametov, senior lecturer at the Department of Oceanology at the Geography Department of Moscow State University.
“The fact is that the North Crimean Channel takes water from the Kakhovka reservoir and sends it for irrigation to the Crimea, which suffers from a lack of water to irrigate the fields. Contaminated water will pass through the Crimean Channel and everything that grows there will be contaminated with radiation. Therefore, in the event of such an accident, the channel will have to be closed immediately, ”said Mukhametov.
He stated that a possible accident on Zaporizhia nuclear power plant will be more serious Chernobyl«.
