After a 15-hour outage: external power supply to the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant has been restored
7 June 05:11
External power supply to the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant was restored on Saturday, June 6, after a 15-hour outage during which the plant was forced to use emergency diesel generators to provide power to six shut-down reactors for cooling purposes. This was reported by "Komersant Ukrainian" citing the IAEA.
“This was the 18th interruption of the external power supply during the war and one of the longest, underscoring the extreme vulnerability of the power grid and the urgency of carrying out planned repairs to power lines under the protection of the ceasefire achieved through IAEA mediation,” the agency’s post on social media platform X quotes Director General Rafael Grossi as saying.
The day before, the IAEA reported that a local ceasefire near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant had come into effect to allow for repairs to the power line. According to the agency, under the terms of the agreements reached, technical specialists from both sides were to repair the 750-kilovolt “Dniprovska” line, which had been damaged as a result of hostilities, under the supervision of IAEA experts. This was the sixth temporary ceasefire that Grossi had coordinated with Russia and Ukraine since the end of last year.
According to the agency, the 750-kilovolt line had not been operational for over two months, leaving the Zaporizhzhia NPP entirely dependent on a single 330-kilovolt line to provide the electricity needed to cool six shut-down reactors. Over the past few weeks, the plant has also repeatedly lost access to this line, forcing it to switch to emergency diesel generators as a last resort.
Preparations for repair work were complicated by the location of the damaged section—on high towers across the demarcation line in the Dnipro area.
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