The final working reactor at
the vast Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was disconnected from Ukraine’s grid
on Monday after Russian shelling disrupted power lines, state nuclear company
Energoatom said.
The imperiled six-reactor
facility in southern Ukraine, which is the largest nuclear power plant in
Europe, was captured by Moscow in March but is still run by Ukrainian staff.
“Today, as a result of a
fire caused by shelling, the (last working) transmission line was
disconnected,” Energoatom said in a statement on Telegram.
“As a result, (reactor)
unit No. 6, which currently supplies the (plant’s) own needs, was unloaded and
disconnected from the grid,” it said.
Ukraine was unable to repair
the power lines now because of fighting raging around the station, Ukrainian
Energy Minister German Galushchenko wrote on Facebook.
“Any repairs of the power
lines are currently impossible- fighting is ongoing around the station,”
he said.
