Vast nuclear plant in Ukraine is being cooled by emergency diesel generators, Russia says


FILE PHOTO: A view shows Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant from the bank of Kakhovka Reservoir near the town of Nikopol after the Nova Kakhovka dam breached, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine June 16, 2023. REUTERS/Alina Smutko/File Photo

MOSCOW (Reuters) -The vast Soviet-built Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine is being cooled by emergency diesel generators for a ninth day after an external power line was severed, its Russian management said on Wednesday.

Russia's state RIA news agency cited the plant's Russian-installed management as saying that backup electricity supply was sufficient for now, but that resumption of a regular electricity supply via an external source - the Dneprovskaya line - was impossible due to Ukrainian shelling.

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