Fire Causes Complete Disruption Of Final Line Connecting Zaporizhia To Ukraine’s Power Grid Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine.

According to the Ukrainian company Energoatom on Thursday, the fire led to the interruption of the last line that connected the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant to the Ukrainian energy system.

The fire in the plant’s ash pits twice disrupted the last terminating line. Three other lines had previously been damaged in what the company described as “terrorist attacks”.

“The action of the intruders caused the ZNPP to be completely disconnected from the power grid, the first in the history of the power plant,” the company explains. There have been military actions in Zaporizhia for which Russians and Ukrainians blame each other.

The situation at the facility has raised great concern that the confrontation could lead to a nuclear incident with unpredictable consequences. This information from Energoatom will arrive shortly.

Then, from Paris, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, stated that there is a principle of agreement with Ukraine and Russia that their agency conducts an inspection. in situ” in the next few days”. “There is an agreement in principle and we are working on the details.”

The hypothesis of an inspection is imminent,” Grossi said in an interview with France 24 after a meeting in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron.

The Russian army has controlled the facility, the largest in Europe, since last March, but Die Ukrainian operators continue to work, in a context of bombings and stress that worries the international community, starting with the IAEA, guaranteeing a continuous presence of the agency to help stabilize the plant where, as he recalled, “the risks who are real.