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Zaporizhia reactors disconnected from power grid – Fire damage to overhead cables

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Fires broke out in ash pits from a coal plant near the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant and damaged cables connecting the nuclear power plant to Ukraine’s grid

The last two operating reactors at its Russian-held nuclear plant Zaporizhia were disconnected from Ukraine’s power grid today after nearby fires damaged overhead cables, Ukraine’s state-run nuclear power company said. Energoatom.

Fires broke out in ash pits from a coal plant near the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant — Europe’s largest nuclear facility — and damaged cables connecting the plant to the grid, the company said.

“As a result, the plant’s two operating power units were disconnected from the grid,” Energoatom said in a statement.

The plant’s safety systems are operating normally and work is underway to reconnect one of the reactors to the grid, the company said.

An energy official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that the two reactors that were shut down were powered by diesel generators.

Each power plant, which includes a reactor, cooling system and other equipment, has three Soviet-era diesel generators that “can’t run for weeks,” the source said.

THE Russiawho invaded the Ukraine in February, seized the Zaporizhia station in March and has placed it under its control since then, although the station continues to operate with Ukrainian Energoatom technicians.

The power station has a total of six reactors.

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