US EditionIAEA Moves to Restore Power to Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Plant Amid Escalating Risks
The restoration follows over two weeks relying on emergency diesel generators to cool reactors and prevent meltdown, with IAEA confirming stable radiation and coolant temperatures.
- On October 9, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said, `Following intensive consultations, the process leading to the re-establishment of off-site power through the Dniprovska and Ferosplavna-1 lines has started.`
- Since September 23, Zaporizhia NPP has relied on emergency diesel generators after losing its last external link, prompting talks to secure repairs on two damaged power lines on opposite sides of the front line.
- IAEA monitoring shows stable coolant temperatures and normal radiation readings as seven power generators operate with 13 on standby at Zaporizhia NPP; IAEA monitors reported five explosions near the site Thursday.
- Producing no electricity, the Zaporizhia NPP remains a flashpoint as Ukraine and Russia blame each other for compromising safety; Rosatom said it prepared to restart, but Sergei Ryabkov said external power is needed.
- Russian forces seized the plant early in the invasion, and it houses six reactors; the decommissioned Chornobyl nuclear power station remains without an external power line after a drone attack cut power to Slavutych for three hours, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week said.
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IAEA Moves to Restore Power to Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Plant Amid Escalating Risks
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has initiated a process to help restore external electricity to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), following weeks of diplomatic engagement with both Ukraine and Russia after the facility again lost all access to the national grid. IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi announced that work has begun to re-establish off-site power through repairs to the damaged 750 kV Dniprovska a…
IAEA Says Process To Restore External Power To Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Plant Has Begun
The process to restore external power to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine has started, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on October 9.
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IAEA: process started to restore external power to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said on Thursday the process had started to restore external power to the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine, cut off from the electricity grid for more than two weeks. Read more at straitstimes.com.
IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said that on October 9, the process of connecting Zaporizhzhya NPP to the external power grid began.
External power supply to Zaporizhia NPP to be restored from Ukrainian power grid – IAEA head
The process aimed at restoring external power supply to Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) of Ukraine began after negotiations with Ukraine and Russia, it will take place via Dniprovska and Ferosplavna-1 power transmission grids, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has said.
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