"Russian engineers have reconnected the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to external electrical power from Ukraine, ending a month-long emergency that had plunged the future of the six-reactor site into doubt. Ukrainian sources told the Guardian that Russian technicians had hoped to connect Europe's biggest nuclear plant which had been relying on backup generators since its last external power line was cut in September to power from the Russian grid on 7 October as a birthday present for Vladimir Putin."
"But the effort was foiled by Ukrainian partisans, who attacked substations behind the lines in the occupied Zaporizhzhia region, damaging a newly completed high-voltage connection that ran from the plant to Mariupol and the Russian grid. As a result, the sources said, Russia had little choice but to repair a 750-kilovolt line that runs from the plant controlled by Russia since March 2022 across the Dnipro River and the frontlines into Ukrainian-held territory to restore the supply of external electricity."
Russian engineers reconnected the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to external electrical power from Ukraine, ending a month-long emergency that threatened the six-reactor site's future. Russian technicians had tried to switch the plant to the Russian grid on 7 October, but Ukrainian partisans attacked substations and damaged a newly completed high-voltage connection to Mariupol and the Russian grid. Russia repaired a 750-kilovolt line running from the plant across the Dnipro River and the frontlines into Ukrainian-held territory to restore supply. The plant had relied on diesel generators beyond the three-day safety limit since 23 September. Although the reactors remain in cold shutdown, loss of continuous cooling risked overheating over weeks and prompted warnings of a slow-motion nuclear accident.
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