No Accident at South Ukraine Nuclear Plant, Says Energoatom Citing Reactor Issue

Ukraine’s Energoatom company denied an accident happening at the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant.

This was reported by the press service of Energoatom, a Ukrainian enterprise operating all four nuclear power plants in Ukraine.

Energoatom stated that an error was detected in the operation of one of the reactors of the station, after which it was unloaded by 33% of the nominal capacity, in accordance with the regulations.

This error, according to Energoatom's statement, will be fixed after Ukrenergo specialists restore the damaged lines and ensure the possibility of supplying electricity.

“This event is not related to the maintenance campaign. The specified situation arose as a result of complex transitional regimes that occurred due to enemy shelling of the Ukrenergo infrastructure and were accompanied by significant fluctuations in the parameters of the network (frequency, voltage, current), to which the power units were connected, with the disconnection of the reactors from the network,” Energoatom concluded.

Previously, the Director of the Energy Research Center, Oleksandr Kharchenko, reported that one of the reactors had failed at the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant.