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Ukraine today blamed the Russian military for a new power outage at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant north of Kiev, which has been occupied since the early days of the Russian invasion.
Ukrainian authorities announced yesterday the restoration of electricity at the nuclear power plant, which needs electricity to maintain safety conditions at radioactive waste storage facilities.
“But, before the power supply was fully restored, the occupying forces hit it again,” the Ukrenergo plant manager told Facebook.
Ukrenergo specifically states that its technicians repaired a high-voltage line that supplies electricity to the Chernobyl station and the town of Slavutic. After this line has been damaged again, according to the same source, technicians will need to return to repair the new damage.
So far, Moscow has not responded to the allegations. After the first power outage, Russia had denounced Ukrainian “provocations”.
Chernobyl reactor No. 4 exploded in 1986, causing the worst nuclear disaster in the history of nuclear power. It is covered with a double sarcophagus. One level was built by the Soviets, had cracks and was covered by modern construction inaugurated in 2019.
The other three reactors at the station were gradually decommissioned, the last in 2000.
An electrically operated cooling system must be in continuous operation to cool the used radioactive fuel stored in the station pool.
Given the time since the 1986 accident, “the thermal load of the pool and the volume of cooling water are sufficient to ensure sufficient heat escape without electricity,” the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced on March 9. ).
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