A backup power line to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant has been disconnected due to damage caused by shelling, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a statement on December 30. The nuclear power plant, which has been shut down, continues to receive electricity needed for reactor cooling and other essential functions from the plant’s only remaining operational external power line, IAEA Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi said. IAEA experts present at the plant reported that its connection to the backup line was lost late on December 29 as a result of shelling some distance away that damaged the line. To read the original story on RFE/RL’s Russian Service, click here.
Shelling Damages Backup Power Line To Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, IAEA Says
The Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (file photo)