China News Service, March 14 (Reuters) - Ukraine said workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant had stopped safety repairs at the plant, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a statement on the 13th local time.
File:The Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
According to reports, the IAEA said in a statement that Ukraine's nuclear regulatory authority said that "(Chernobyl) staff no longer carry out repairs and maintenance of safety-related equipment, in part because they are physically and mentally ill after nearly three weeks of continuous work. exhausted."
On the same day, the Ukrainian Atomic Energy Agency said that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant had been restored to power, which means that the cooling system will operate normally without the use of backup power.
On the 9th local time, the Ukrainian side said that the only power grid of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was damaged, and the nuclear power plant and its safety system were completely powered off, and a nuclear leak may occur.
The IAEA said the outage did not have any major impact on its safety.
On April 26, 1986, the reactor of Unit 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, located more than 100 kilometers north of Kyiv, exploded, causing a large amount of strong radioactive material to leak, resulting in the world's most serious nuclear leakage accident so far.