The Ukrainian closure of the Dnieper transmission line, which supplies electricity to the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), may signal the start of hostilities in the region. aforementioned “Public news service” power engineer Igor Yushkov.
According to him, in this case, damage to the nuclear power plant may occur, and this will also create an obstacle to the introduction of diesel to cool the reactors.
“Zaporozhye NPP is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. If an explosion had occurred on it, especially with working nuclear reactors, then a nuclear cloud would have covered all of Europe, Ukraine and part of Russia due to the wind. “The consequences would be worse than Chernobyl,” Yushkov said.
The expert stressed that the Russian side made attempts to minimize such risks and therefore stopped all reactors. But according to him, the situation today is bad.
RIA Novosti, referring to representatives of the station after its closure WroteThat there were no violations of the safe operation of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant after leaving the Dnieper power line. There was no security breach due to the transition to backup transformers.
Rafael Grossi, then Director-General of the IAEA declarationThe temporary shutdown of the power supply at the ZNPP indicated the uncertainty of the situation with the nuclear safety of the plant.
Former President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky asked Developing a law in an emergency in the ZNPP.