Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant has no external electricity supply again – grid operator

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Updated: Mar 14, 2022, 12:52 GMT+00:00

LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - The head of Ukraine's state-owned grid operator, Ukrenergo, said on Monday the Chernobyl nuclear power station was relying on electricity from diesel generators after external power supplies to the plant were damaged again.

A general view shows a New Safe Confinement structure over the old sarcophagus covering the damaged fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in Chernobyl

LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – The head of Ukraine’s state-owned grid operator, Ukrenergo, said on Monday the Chernobyl nuclear power station was relying on electricity from diesel generators after external power supplies to the plant were damaged again.

The nearby town of Slavutych was completely without power for the same reason, Ukrenergo chief Volodymyr Kudrytskiy said on national television.

(Reporting by Max Hunder, Writing by Alessandra Prentice, Editing by Timothy Heritage)

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