“Under the supervision of an IAEA team based at the Zaporizhzhia NPP, the repair work, which began on Sunday morning, was completed on Monday afternoon”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the press service of the agency, under the supervision of the IAEA team based at the Zaporizhia NPP, the repair work that began on Sunday morning was completed on Monday afternoon, after the damaged power line and a separate problem with the autotransformer of the distribution station of the Zaporizhia NPP were fully eliminated and restored.
The IAEA notes that this is the third time in recent months that temporary ceasefire agreements have allowed the reconnection of power lines, this time resuming power transmission between the distribution substations of the ZNPP and the nearby Zaporizhzhya Thermal Power Plant two weeks after it was shut down, reportedly due to military activity.
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Six reactors of the Zaporizhzhya NPP have been in cold shutdown since 2022. The IAEA is constantly present at the facility to monitor security during shelling.
Russian forces seized Europe’s largest nuclear power plant with six reactors in the first weeks of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The plant does not produce electricity, but each side regularly accuses the other of hostilities that threaten nuclear safety.