Power loss at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Grossi (Aiea): “Deeply concerned”

“We are deeply concerned about the repeated lost of energy outside the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant”That’s what the director general ofAyea (the International Atomic Energy Agency), Rafael Mariano Grossi, who yesterday met with the Russian president in Moscow Vladimir Putin.

Grossi explained that he was told that the plant, which is the largest in Europe and located in southern Ukraine, has suffered a “loss of all external power for the second time in five days”. generators diesel reserve are now providing electricity for its nuclear security and protection functions”.

“This repeated off-site energy loss,” he added, “is a profound development worrisome of the situation and stresses the urgent need for an area of nuclear safety around the site itself”.

The need for more security to avoid nuclear accident that would be devastating for the entire region and not only had it always been advanced yesterday by Grossi in his meeting in Moscow with President Putin, who in turn assured that fly “is ready to solve all problems” concerning the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine.

The meeting between Grossi and Putin in Moscow.

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was occupied by Russian forces last March, but has always been managed by the Ukrainian staff. After the Moscow annexation referendums that took place in four Ukrainian regions, including Zaporizhzhia, the Kremlin declared that the plant was formally included in Russia’s list of federal assets.

This only heightened concerns about the safety of the plant itself.

To feed them was also recently Energoatomthe Ukrainian state company that operates the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which has accused the Russian forces occupying it of refusing a convoy of company vehicles they were transporting diesel to refuel the generators at the plant, which was cut off from the electricity supply.

In a statement posted on Telegram, Energoatom specified: “This morning, October 12, at 8:59 am, following the launch of rockets of Russian troops, the Dniprovska in the Dnipropetrovsk region was damaged. As a result, the 750 kV communication line from ZANP – Dniprovska was accidentally opened and electricity was cut off at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. The diesel generators start automatically.”

And once again: “Occupants continue to neglect the nuclear safety of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, threatening the world with a radiation”.