The fight cannot “last longer” at the Zaporizhia power plant. Guest of BFMTV this Saturday, Ludovic Dupin, information director of SFEN, the French nuclear energy company, warned about the danger of the “on/off” imposed on the nuclear power plant for several weeks.
“The situation is deteriorating at great speed,” he laments. “We expected at the beginning of September with the IAEA inspection that the situation would calm down, that there would be less pressure in the plant, and there we find ourselves with power cuts again, the plant is resisting it, because the security installations are in very good condition. That said, it can’t last, we need to stop harassing this plant.”
While acknowledging that “demilitarizing” the plant as President Volodymyr Zelensky wants seems “impossible”, Ludovic Dupin stresses the need to “preserve” the plant, at the risk of having “a concern”.
“At some point, there will be no more levee”
It goes back to precisely what it means to turn off the switchboard, and the risks of a repetition of this type of “on/off”. At each disconnection, the plant feeds itself and the reactors themselves produce electricity.
“At the moment the plant is working very well, but it is very possible that it will no longer work and we can move on to the next stage. And by dint of diking, at some point there won’t be any more dikes,” he explains.
Ludovic Dupin specifies that if the plant stops being self-sufficient, “we have 10 days of diesel reserves” to do so. However, he asserts that turning the power plant on and off repeatedly risks reducing the safety margin again and again, concluding that “the fighting must stop, there are no questions to ask.”
Source: BFM TV
