ZURICH, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s Zaporizhia nuclear power plant has again lost its connection to its last external power line but continues to supply power to the grid via a reserve line, the International Energy Agency said on Saturday. atomic energy (IAEA).
The IAEA also indicated in a statement posted on its website that only one of the plant’s six reactors remained in operation.
Europe’s largest nuclear power plant has been controlled by Russian troops since their invasion of Ukraine began in late February and has become a major point of confrontation, with each side accusing each other of shelling the area around the site. .
UN agency experts now stationed at the plant learned from the site’s Ukrainian employees that the fourth operational 750-kilovolt power line was now out of service, like the three others whose connection to the grid had been lost earlier. said the IAEA.
“A reactor is still operational and producing electricity, both for cooling and other essential safety functions, on site and for homes, factories and others via the grid,” it added. ‘agency. (Michael Shields and Ron Popeski, Gilles Guillaume for the French version)