LAST UPDATE: 12:19 p.m
All six reactors at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine remain disconnected from the country’s power grid, Ukraine’s state nuclear power agency Energoatom said.
However, Energoatom added that at the moment the nuclear plant’s machinery and safety systems are working normally.
A Russian official in the occupied part of Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region said today that electricity from the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant is being supplied to Ukraine as normal, Reuters reports.
State news agency TASS quoted the head of the Russian-installed command at Enerhodar, where the nuclear power plant is located, as saying the plant was operating “without interruption”.
The Zaporizhia nuclear power plant receives the electricity it needs through a line from Ukraine’s power grid, while work continues to restore the grid connection of the plant’s two operating reactors.
Energoatom announced on Thursday that for “the first time in its history” the nuclear plant was “completely disconnected” from the grid.
For weeks, Moscow and Kyiv have blamed each other for shelling areas near the nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, which before the Russian invasion on February 24 produced about 20% of Ukraine’s electricity.
Russian forces seized the station in early March, but Ukrainian engineers from Energoatom are still keeping it running.
Source: Capital
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