Repair of the main power line at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine

The United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency said on Saturday that one of the four main power lines at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhia nuclear power plant has been repaired and has again started feeding electricity from the Ukrainian grid two weeks after it failed.

Although the six reactors in Zaporizhia, Europe's largest nuclear power plant, have been closed, the fuel there still needs to be cooled to avoid a potentially catastrophic meltdown.

This means that the plant needs electricity to pump water into the reactors.

The power supply in Zaporizhia became a major concern after the last main line was disrupted and then three backup lines that could connect the plant to a nearby coal-fired power station were disconnected.

"With the reconnection of the main line yesterday afternoon, the three backup power lines are being maintained again as replacement lines," the agency said in a statement.

She added: "The other three external power lines with a voltage of 750 kilovolts, which were stopped earlier during the conflict, are still out of order."

And while the energy situation in Zaporizhia has improved over the past week, in sharp contrast to the situation earlier this month when all power lines were disrupted in one phase and relied on the last working reactor for vital electricity supplies, the overall situation of the plant located in the middle of a war zone It's still risky."

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