Zaporizhzhya NPP says Russia is using shelling to connect plant to its power grid – BBC News
The situation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in connection with the shelling and the deployment of Russian MLRS and other military weapons there is close to what happened at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant. About it told BBC Ukrainian service one of the station’s engineers.
According to the engineer, due to shelling to cut off high-voltage power lines connecting the Zaporizhzhya NPP with the energy system of Ukraine, the possibility of a “nuclear accident” could exist.
recalled that the power plant cannot work “to nowhere” and must give electricity to the power grid. Otherwise, the power units are switched off in an emergency, and a “blackout” (stop) begins. In his opinion, this situation is beneficial for Russia: the country specifically uses the “blackout” in order to then choose the possibility of connecting to the Russian energy system through the ZNPP-Melitopol-Dzhankoy line.
The interlocutor also noted that the situation is not similar to Chernobyl, but rather reminds of what happened at Fukushima due to the shutdown of the reactor cooling. At the same time, in the case of Fukushima, there was a natural disaster, the engineer was saved:
“There is no help from the world in this situation. Every year, missions from the IAEA and other international organizations in the field of nuclear energy come to visit us. But when this happens, they all stand in the role. The most we hear is “deep vulnerability.” Fukushima was a disaster because the earthquake and tsunami caused the reactor to cool down. As a result of the detection of a steam flash in the core, the pressurized zone of the reactor was destroyed. Radioactive substances entered the mind. This scenario may be repeated at the ZNPP: but the causes are not a natural disaster. This is the shelling of the Russian army.”
In addition, the speaker stated that Rosatom employees “sit in shelters” during the shelling. At the same time, some military men calmly walk around the territory, naturally, that “they are the ones who shoot,” although about the restrictions on “shelling” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
From the first day of the occupation, the station personnel have been disappearing, says the engineer. He stated that first, elected activists from Enerhodar are kidnapped, then ATO participants and their relatives, and then everyone who identifies himself as Ukrainian:
“They torture them to death. Recently, federal authorities said that there are abandoned weapons in the cooling pools. They wanted to call our full-time scuba diver from the hydro department to dive and look for weapons there. He dissapeared. He was beaten to death.”
At present, the proportion of the population in permanent insurance under occupation without natural connection, shops, banks and civilizations, buy food “from the trunks of cars in the markets.”
Ukraine and Russia have repeatedly accused others of shelling the ZNPP. On August 11, the Ukrainian “Energy Representative of the Atom” and the pro-Russian representative of the “administration” Rogov practically succeeded: they wrote about “five arrivals”, grass fires and a failed “shift change” at the station. The Ministry of Defense of Russia and the Armed Forces of Ukraine with Energoatom of Ukraine directly accuse a friend of nuclear terrorism.
The Insider’s sources at the Zaporizhzhya NPP report on the activity of Russian soldiers on the territory of the station. The department also has a video in which police police trucks leave for the territory of the nuclear power plant and unload some kind of cargo. According to this source, the machine room was mined. Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak confirmed In the course of The Insider, that Russia really adheres to the mining of the ZNPP territory, and also stores shells of “different capacities and different power” right in the shops.