(ANSA-AFP) - MOSCOW, MAY 22 - Ukraine's occupied Zaporizhzhia
nuclear plant has been cut off from the power grid again, its
Russian administrators and the Ukrainian atomic agency said on
Monday, a potentially dangerous incident that has become more
frequent due to shelling. "Due to a high-tension line being cut,
the plant lost its external electricity supply," the Russian
administration wrote on Telegram, adding the causes of the
outage were being investigated and that back-up diesel
generators were keeping it working. Ukraine's nuclear agency
Energoatom accused Russia of carrying out an attack on Monday
morning that caused the power cut, saying it was the seventh
instance of the plant entering "blackout mode" since Moscow's
troops took control in March 2022. Energoatom said the
generators had enough fuel reserves to last 10 days. "If it is
impossible to restore external power to the plant during this
time, an accident with radiation consequences for the whole
world may occur," it warned. (ANSA-AFP).
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