The last working reactor at Ukraine’s Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe and occupied by Russian forces, was disconnected from the grid on Monday, Ukrainian state operator Energoatom said.
“Reactor number six has been shut down and disconnected from the grid,” Energoatom said on the Telegram social network, citing a fire “that occurred due to shelling” and damaged a power line connecting this plant to the Ukrainian grid.
This reactor was the only one to operate among the six units of this plant.
On Saturday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), whose experts are on site, had already announced the closure of reactor number five, also due to damage to a power line after a bombing.
The other four Zaporizhia reactors have been shut down for several weeks.
This latest incident follows a visit on Friday by an IAEA delegation to the plant, which is in dispute between kyiv and Moscow and whose site was bombed several times, raising fears of a nuclear disaster.
For several weeks, Russians and Ukrainians blamed each other for these bombings.
With six reactors with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts each, this plant fell into the hands of Russian troops in March, shortly after the start of the invasion of Ukraine.
Source: TSF
