External power was restored to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station on Thursday (24 November), a day after it lost access to offsite electricity in the latest incident highlighting continued threats from shelling to nuclear safety and security during the current armed conflict in the country, International Atomic Energy Agency director-general Rafael Grossi said.
Also on Thursday, Ukraine’s national nuclear operator Energoatom said it was “doing everything possible to restore the operation of nuclear generation as soon as possible”, after Ukraine’s three other operational nuclear power plants were also disconnected from the grid earlier this week.
Energoatom said: “Start-up operations are being carried out at the power units of the Rovno, South Ukrainian and Khmelnitski nuclear power stations. During the day, if the power system is ready… these stations will be connected to the power grid”.
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