Safety systems at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine were activated, the RIA news agency reported, after power cuts were reported across swaths of Russian-controlled territory.
Outages were reported in parts of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, while Russia’s defence ministry said Ukraine shelled the plant, Europe’s largest nuclear power facility.
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant was disconnected from the national power supply, the state energy operator has said.
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One of the Zaporozhye NPP’s two power units that had to be disconnected from the power grid on Thursday after a bombardment by Ukraine’s armed forces is back in operation, the head of the military-civilian administration (MCA) of the Zaporozhye Region, Yevgeny Balitsky, has said.
ReplyDelete"Today, as a result of a strike by Ukraine’s forces on high-voltage power lines in the area of the Zaporozhye NPP there was a fire in the territory of the security zone of the 750 kV power line. The fire caused a short circuit. The emergency protection system turned off two power units. A power outage in the whole of the Zaporozhye Region followed. Immediately after the fire was extinguished one power unit was put into operation," Balitsky wrote in his telegram channel.
Balitsky added that work was underway to restore power supply to the Zaporozhye Region and re-commission the other ZNPP power unit disconnected from the network. Power supply to all cities and districts of the region has been restored.
Earlier, the Ukrainian company Energoatom - the ZNPP’s operator - claimed that for the first time ever it had been completely disconnected from the power grid.
On Thursday, the media resource Zaporozhsky Vestnik said electricity supply for Melitopol, Energodar and a number of other localities of the Zaporozhye Region had been disrupted due to the Ukrainian army’s shelling of Energodar. A field near Energodar reportedly caught fire, which caused a short circuit at a substation.
The Russian State Duma Council statement regarding the threats created by Ukrainian shelling of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant will be sent to the UN, the IAEA and national parliaments shortly, says Dmitry Vyatkin, First Deputy Head of the United Russia Duma faction.
ReplyDelete"The statement of the Duma Council will be forwarded as soon as possible," Vyatkin said after the emergency Duma Council meeting.
He added that the Zaporozhye NPP is the largest power plant in Europe.
"Should any unfavorable event occur, should any part of the critical equipment be disabled, the plant will pose the most serious threat, a much larger one than when the Chernobyl disaster happened," he said.
"We understand that, but European leaders, European parliaments and citizens of European states must understand that as well. We are defending not only the station, we are protecting not only our own interests and interests of the people of Donbass and Malorossiya - we are protecting the entire Europe and the entire world, even, because, should an irreversible disaster occur, it will affect the entire world," Vyatkin said.
The lawmaker also pointed out that the statement emphasizes separately that Russian "servicemen are the main and the only guarantors of security at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant".