Power supply restored at Zaporozhye NPP

Zaporozhye NPP is working normally again, the external power supply of the station has been restored. About it informs press service of the nuclear power plant in the Telegram channel.

“At 14:00 (the time coincides with Moscow. – Vedomosti) operations were completed to put the 750 kV Dneprovskaya line into operation. The station is operating normally,” the press service of Zaporizhzhya NPP Director Yury Chernichuk quotes.

It is noted that the station’s own needs are powered according to the standard scheme. There are no violations in the operation of the nuclear power plant.

Renat Karchaa, adviser to the general director of the Rosenergoatom concern, said earlier that the 750kV Dneprovskaya line was disconnected by the Ukrainian side at 01:07 Moscow time. In the press service of ZNPP clarifiedthat after that the power supply of the station switched to backup transformers.

The previous time shutdown of ZNPP from external power supply happened On May 22, later that day, electricity was restored. Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi named the situation around the station “playing with fire”.

Zaporozhye NPP is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. Since the end of February 2022, ZNPP has been under Russian control. The Russian side has repeatedly reported that the station and the city of Energodar, where it is located, are subjected to regular shelling by Ukraine.

In early September last year, an IAEA mission arrived at ZNPP. The organization called for an end to the attacks on the station and the establishment of a safe zone around it. Earlier today Grossi declaredthat the agency considers the situation at ZNPP “extremely fragile and dangerous.” He stressed that IAEA representatives continue to stay at the station.