Khmelnitsky, Rivne and South Ukrainian nuclear power plants during the missile and drone attack of the Russian Federation on Thursday morning preemptively reduced power, and one of the power units of the Rivne plant was disconnected from the grid. This was announced by the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Raphael Grossi, writes UNN.
For the second time in less than two weeks, Khmelnitsky, Rivne and South Ukrainian nuclear power plants lowered their capacity levels as a warning step during large-scale military operations in the country. In total, there are nine reactors operating at the nuclear power plant, all of them have reduced their capacity. One Raes reactor was also disconnected from the network,
At the same time, it is said that the nuclear power plants continued to receive external electricity, despite the fact that KHNPP lost connection to two of its power lines.
The report also notes that two IAEA teams stationed in Ukraine were forced to hide in storage during an air alert.
At the same time, the agency points out that there were no reports of direct damage to the nuclear power plant, but Ukraine reported that the strikes again affected electrical substations used by the stations both for transmitting and generating electricity for their own needs.
These substations, identified by the IAEA as important for Nuclear Safety, have been damaged in previous attacks, particularly in August.,
The IAEA notes that nuclear power plants need a reliable connection to the grid both to transmit the generated electricity and to receive external energy to cool the reactors.
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Ukrenergo on the morning of November 28, introduced emergency power outages in the regions of Ukraine due to Russian strikes. The energy minister confirmed massive attacks on power facilities across the country.