Europe's largest nuclear plant, Ukraine's Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia station, lost all outside power for about 10 hours on Sunday, Nov. 8, and ran on emergency diesel generators until the connection was restored, the International Atomic Energy Agency said.
The plant lost its only 330-kilovolt power line, and the cause and location of the break are not yet known, the Kyiv Independent reported. "It is the 27th such event during the conflict, underlining the continued precarious nuclear safety situation," IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said.
Ukraine's nuclear operator Energoatom said the Ferosplavna-1 line dropped at 2:36 a.m. and an automatic reconnection attempt failed. It was the 16th complete loss of outside power at the plant this year, Interfax-Ukraine reported.
Background
The six-reactor plant in Enerhodar has been under Russian control since March 2022 and has not produced electricity since September 2022, but it still needs power to cool its reactors and spent fuel. In June, a similar outage left it on diesel generators for 15 hours.