IAEA informs on resumption of power supply to Chornobyl NPP

Power supply has been restored to the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) site after repeated damage from hostilities, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said.

"Ukraine has informed the IAEA that external power had again today been restored to the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant after line had been again damaged by the occupying forces," the IAEA said in a tweet on the night of Monday to Tuesday.

Other details are not reported.

The IAEA website notes that the "regulatory authority" informed the agency about the resumption of power supply to the Chornobyl nuclear power plant on the afternoon of March 14.

"The regulatory authority told the IAEA that at 13:10 CET external power had again been restored and that staff at the Chornobyl NPP had restarted operations to reconnect the NPP to the grid," the agency said.

The city council of Slavutych, a satellite city of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, on its Facebook late on Monday evening announced that the city's power supply had been resumed and the connection of residential buildings would be carried out gradually.

As reported with reference to NPC Ukrenergo, on March 14, Russian invaders again damaged the high-voltage line supplying power to the Chornobyl nuclear power plant and Slavutych, after the company had repaired it.

The NPP site and Slavutych were de-energized on March 9 due to shelling of energy infrastructure by Russian troops.

Source: www.en.interfax.com.ua