The site of a Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attack on the staff of the Zaporizhia NPP (ZNPP) has been shown to IAEA inspectors, the plant’s press service reported. “A group of international inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, who are present at the plant, visited the site of the recent attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the staff of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. The inspectors examined the location where the incident occurred,” the statement said.
An attack on a group of ZNPP employees who were working on the plant’s hydraulic structures occurred on 27 June. As a result of the attack, a company vehicle was damaged. The employees who were cleaning the canal took cover in time, and no one was injured in the incident. According to the ZNPP press service, there were three drones.
Rosatom called this incident a “new level of threat”. This is the first time that ZNPP employees have been attacked on the premises of the plant. IAEA inspectors stationed at the plant, visited the site of the recent attack on 30 June.
Meanwhile, Russian regulator Rostechnadzor has verified the accuracy of the information in the documents submitted by operating organisation JSC EO ZNPP to obtain a licence to operate nuclear installations for ZNOO units 1&2. The commission found that the information is reliable and corresponds to the actual state of affairs.
IAEA said earlier that ZNPP remains reliant on one single off-site power line to receive the external electricity it needs to cool its six reactors and their used fuel, some seven weeks after it lost the connection to its last back-up power line of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said today.
“The extremely fragile external power situation as well as challenges related to the availability of cooling water after the Kakhovka dam was destroyed two years ago underline the fact that nuclear safety remains highly precarious,” said Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi. “There are many important issues that must be addressed before it will be feasible to restart the plant.”
The 330 kilovolt (kV) power line was disconnected on 7 May due to military activities some distance away from the plant dependent on one 750 kV line. Before the conflict, it had access to ten off-site power lines. Its six reactors have been in cold shutdown since 2024, but still require cooling water for their reactor cores. The IAEA team based at ZNPP has continued to hear explosions at various distances away from the site.
The IAEA team has continued to conduct walkdowns across the site as part of the Agency’s mission to monitor and assess nuclear safety and security there.
