The site has been under control of Russian troops since last week
The state communications agency says the outage could put systems for cooling nuclear material at risk.
However, the International Atomic Energy Agency says it sees “no critical impact on safety” from the power cut at the decommissioned plant inThe Vienna-based U.N. nuclear watchdog said Wednesday that Ukraine had informed it of the loss of electricity and that the development violates a “key safety pillar on ensuring uninterrupted power supply.” But it tweeted that “in this case IAEA sees no critical impact on safety.
The IAEA said that there could be “effective heat removal without need for electrical supply” from spent nuclear fuel at the site. The cause of the damage to the power line serving Chernobyl was not immediately clear, but it comes amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Ukrainian grid operator Ukrenerho said that according to the national nuclear regulator, all Chernobyl facilities are without power and the diesel generators have fuel for 48 hours.
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