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Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Relying on Generators Again After Losing Internal Power Supply
The Moscow Times • • world
Key Points:
- The Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine lost its external electricity supply again, forcing it to rely on backup diesel generators for reactor cooling, according to plant management and the IAEA.
- The plant's off-site power was cut after the Ferosplavna power line disconnected, with the cause and location of the disconnection currently unknown; the plant has enough fuel to run emergency generators for about two weeks.
- Russia seized the Zaporizhzhia plant early in the 2022 invasion, and both Moscow and Kyiv have accused each other of actions endangering nuclear safety; radiation levels at the site remain normal per Russian-installed management.
- A Russian overnight attack on energy infrastructure in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region left over 600,000 people without electricity, with Russia claiming strikes targeted Ukrainian military energy facilities and a weapons delivery ship near Odesa.
- A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person in Russia's Kursk region, hitting a tractor in the village of Pervomayskoe, according to the regional governor.
