An inspection team from the International Atomic Energy Agency is en route to the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, which has been bombed in recent weeks, IAEA Director General Raphael Grossi said on Wednesday.
“We are finally moving after months of efforts. The International Atomic Energy Agency is moving into the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant,” Grossi told reporters in Kyiv before his departure. It is the largest in Europe and is controlled by the Russian military. From the beginning of March
The upcoming visit of the International Atomic Energy Agency delegation to inspect the nuclear power plant takes place after the Ukrainian state company that operates the Zaporizhia power plant announced last Thursday that the power plant was completely disconnected from the Ukrainian power grid after the lines connecting it to the Ukrainian power grid. has been This network was interrupted for the first time in its history.
Ukrainian authorities announced that the plant was briefly cut off from the national power grid for the first time in 40 years.
“The agency’s response should be much faster than it is,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Zaporizhia under Russian control
Russian forces have taken control of the Zaporizhia station since early March.
For weeks, Moscow and Kyiv have accused each other of the Zaporizhia station bombing.
Russia, in turn, accuses Ukrainian forces of targeting the station with drone attacks, while Ukraine accuses Russia of keeping heavy weapons at the Zaporizhia station and using it as a base to attack Ukrainian sites. slow
Moscow, for its part, denies keeping weapons at the station and insists it only deploys forces there to ensure its own security.
The United Nations called for the creation of a demilitarized zone around the station to ensure the security of the site and allow for inspections.
Zaporizhia nuclear power plant .. what do we know about it?
The Zaporizhia nuclear power plant was designed from the time of the former Soviet Union, and its construction began in 1980.
The Zaporizhia NPP consists of 6 reactors, the so-called “hydro-capacitive” VVIR-1000 V-320 reactors.
The reactors are water-cooled and their neutrons are water-cooled and run on uranium-235, which has an estimated half-life of more than 700 million years.
Its sixth reactor was connected to the grid in 1995.
This power plant is the largest in Europe and one of the 10 largest power plants in the world.
Each of Zaporizhia’s six units has a net capacity of 950 MW, or a total of 5.7 GW.
It covers 20% of Ukraine’s electricity consumption.
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