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Ukraine’s Zaporiza nuclear power plant, controlled by Russia, resumed power supply to Ukraine on the 26th (local time).
However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that the situation was still dangerous.
According to AFP and Archyde.com, Ukrainian state-owned nuclear power company Energoatom announced on the 25th that two of the six reactors at the Zaporiza nuclear power plant, which were disconnected from the Ukraine power grid, were reconnected to the power grid on the 26th and are supplying power once more.
Energoatom said in a statement that “the Zaporiza nuclear power plant continues to operate within the Ukrainian grid despite several provocations by the occupiers.”
The first of these two reactors was reconnected at 2:04 pm local time and the second at 9:15 pm local time, Energoatom explained.
In a regular speech that night, President Zelensky said that Ukraine’s experts had worked to avoid a “worst case scenario” but “emphasized that the situation is still very dangerous.”
He warned that a recurrence of the nuclear power plant’s disconnection, or any action by Russia that might trigger a situation like this, would once once more put the nuclear power plant on the verge of disaster.
The Zaporiza nuclear power plant was disconnected from the Ukrainian power grid on the 25th as the last one of the four transmission lines connecting the power plant and the outside was damaged due to a fire in a nearby hill.
There was also a power outage in the surrounding area.
Ukraine and Russia battled each other for responsibility for the fire and power line disconnection caused by each other’s shelling.
The Zaporiza nuclear power plant with six reactors, Europe’s largest, supplied regarding 20% of Ukraine’s electricity before the Russian invasion.
The Russian military took control of the nuclear power plant in March, but it is still operated by Energoatom engineers.
Fighting has continued this month in and around the Japoriza nuclear power plant.
Most recently, the bombardment continued on the 20th and 22nd, damaging some of the infrastructure in the nuclear power plant.
However, it is not known who actually bombed, and both Ukraine and Russia are requesting inspections from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on the same day that negotiations on the issue of the IAEA inspection team’s visit to the Japorija nuclear power plant had been effectively concluded, citing a source.
The visit was scheduled for next week, and it is known that there is a possibility that the visit will be made as early as the 29th.
IAEA Secretary General Rafael Grossi said in an interview with French TV the day before that the inspection would be possible within a few days at the earliest.
/yunhap news