The nuclear site still needs energy to ensure optimum safety of the fuel assemblies stored on site.
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Another power outage. Ukraine accused the Russian army on Monday (March 14) of again cutting off the power supply to the Chernobyl nuclear site, located north of Kiev and under Moscow’s control since the first days of the country’s invasion. . For now, the Kremlin has not responded to this accusation. After the announcement of the first power cut by Kiev, Russia denounced a “provocation” Ukrainian.
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The Ukrainian authorities said on Sunday that they had restored the power supply to the old power plant, which still needs energy to ensure the optimal safety of the fuel assemblies stored on site. “But before the power was fully restored, the occupying forces damaged it again”reports the Ukrainian operator of the site, Ukrenergo, on Facebook.
Concretely, Ukrenergo affirms that its technicians had repaired a high voltage line supplying the Chernobyl site and the city of Slavoutitch. This line having been damaged again, according to this source, other employees will have to return to the site to “repair this new damage”. “A stable energy supply will prevent a repeat of the Chernobyl disaster”argued Ukrenergo.