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Ukraine’s Zaporizhia nuclear power plant (pictured here on September 11) has been reconnected to the country’s electricity grid.
UKRAINE – The Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporijjia was reconnected to the country’s electricity grid, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Saturday September 17, after the site had been deprived of a source of electricitywhich increased the risk of an accident.
“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 IAEA said in a statement.
An issue of clashes between Russians and Ukrainians
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 Septemberand two of its members remained there for permanent surveillance.
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