Ukraine: Zaporizhia nuclear power plant reconnected to the Ukrainian network
The Zaporijjia nuclear power plant, near Enerdoar, August 22, 2022. REUTERS - ALEXANDER ERMOCHENKO
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Ukraine's Zaporizhia nuclear power plant has been reconnected to the country's electricity grid, the IAEA said on Saturday, after the site was deprived of a source of electricity, which increased the risk of an accident.
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Ukraine's Zaporizhia nuclear power plant has been reconnected to the country's electricity grid, the IAEA said on Saturday, after the site was deprived of a source of electricity, which increased the risk of an accident.
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The repaired 750 kilovolt (kv) line supplies Europe's largest nuclear power plant ... with the electricity needed to provide reactor cooling and other safety functions
," the agency said. of atomic energy in a press release.
Since it had been disconnected from the network, the plant, at stake in clashes between Russians and Ukrainians in recent weeks, and whose reactors have been stopped, could only count on a power plant supply to ensure the cooling of its installations. .
The risk was that this power supply would be cut off.
The plant, located in southern Ukraine on the Dnieper River, came under the control of Russian forces in March and bombardments on the site raised fears of a nuclear disaster.
A team of IAEA experts was able to go there at the beginning of September
, and two of its members remained there for permanent monitoring.
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