General Rtishchev: NBC defense units are permanently on duty at the Zaporozhye NPP

Units of Russia's radiation, chemical and biological defense troops carry out permanent tasks at the Zaporozhye NPP and are in readiness to respond to possible emergency situations. This was stated by the commander of the NBC defense troops, Major General Alexei Rtishchev, in an interview with the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda.

He said that "the units continue to carry out tasks at this nuclear facility on a permanent basis." According to the general, a combined detachment of NBC defense troops is deployed at the station and is in readiness to respond to possible emergency situations.

According to the general, in addition to their main tasks, specialists of the troops, together with IAEA inspectors, monitor the radiation situation at the station and take and analyze soil and water samples — both at the Zaporozhye NPP itself and at socially significant facilities in the satellite city of Energodar. Monitoring is conducted around the clock.

According to monitoring data, the radiation background remains within natural background values: no exceedances have been recorded, and no chemical or biological threats have been identified, Rtishchev said.