Occupiers connect mobile generators to Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant – IAEA

At the Russian-captured Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the occupiers are connecting mobile diesel-fuelled boilers to prevent the plant's critical systems from freezing.

Source: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Details: As the IAEA states, on 13 December, its team at the ZNPP was informed about the ongoing works on testing and setting in operation mobile diesel-fuelled boilers; they are intended to prevent the critical ZNPP systems from freezing during the winter, including heating of working environment for the ZNPP personnel.

Mobile diesel-fuelled boilers with a capacity of 1-3 MW were installed and are currently in operation at one of the units, with several more being deployed at other locations on the site.

ZNPP has 20 fixed emergency diesel generators in stand-by mode and ready to provide electricity if all off-site electrical power is not available.

However, to increase the ability to cope with such loss of off-site power, mobile diesel generators are currently being deployed as well, as a precautionary measure.

Two such mobile generators are already connected to one unit and are in stand-by mode. A few other mobile generators are to be tested and will be connected to other reactor units.

On December 13, the ZNPP lost connection with the 330-kilovolt (kV) backup transmission line to the grid; the plant continued to receive electricity from the main external 750-kV transmission line.

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