Austria:
The global atomic energy watchdog said on Saturday that Ukraine’s nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhya had been disconnected from the last remaining mains power line and now relies on a backup power line.
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has again lost connection to the last remaining external mains power line, but the facility continues to supply electricity to the grid through a backup line, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was informed at the site. today,” the agency said in a statement.
Less than 48 hours after Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi established the presence of the IAEA Support and Assistance Mission to ZaporizhzhIa (ISAMZ) at the facility in southern Ukraine on Thursday, the agency’s experts were informed by senior Ukrainian staff that the fourth operational 750 Kilovolt (kV) power line had gone down. The other three had been lost earlier during the conflict,” it added.
The alarm has grown in recent weeks over shelling that hit the area of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizhzhya.
Ukraine said Friday it bombed a Russian base in the nearby city of Energodar, destroying three artillery systems and an ammunition depot.
Russia’s envoy in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, said six IAEA inspectors would be left behind for several days and two more would remain “permanent”.
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