"One of the diesel generators providing emergency power to the plant is no longer working, Zelenskyy said, a week after external power lines went down. Russian shelling has cut the plant off from the electricity network, the Ukrainian leader said. This is a threat to everyone. No terrorist in the world has ever dared to do with a nuclear power plant what Russia is doing now."
"It is also the 10th time since the start of the war that the plant the largest in Europe has been disconnected from the power grid. Russia seized control of Zaporizhzhia in the first weeks of the war, and the plant's six reactors, which before the conflict produced about one-fifth of Ukraine's electricity, were shut down after Moscow took over. But the plant needs power to maintain cooling and safety systems, which prevent reactors from melting a danger that could set off a nuclear incident."
Zelenskyy warned the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been without power for seven days, the longest outage since Russia's February 2022 full-scale invasion. One diesel emergency generator has stopped working after external power lines went down following Russian shelling, leaving the plant isolated from the electricity network. The plant was seized by Russian forces early in the war and its six reactors were shut down; the facility still requires power to operate cooling and safety systems that prevent reactor meltdowns and a potential nuclear incident. Russia and Ukraine trade blame while the IAEA called the cutoff unacceptable without assigning blame.
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