Nuke plant offline after Russian shelling disconnects last line: Ukraine
Europe’s largest nuclear plant was knocked off Ukraine’s electricity grid Monday after its last transmission line was disconnected as a result of a fire caused by Russian shelling, the facility’s operator said.
Russian forces have kept up intensive shelling of the area around Zaporizhzhia in recent days, Energoatom said in a statement.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, a UN watchdog, said last Saturday that the plant had lost its last main line to the grid, but was still sending power to the grid through a reserve line.
Officials at the IAEA, which still has two experts at the plant, and Energoatom weren’t immediately available to explain the consequences of the line being cut.
