IAEA confirms emergency situation at the South Ukraine NPP last week

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed the emergency situation at the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant (South Ukraine NPP, Mykolaiv Region) last week.

The IAEA has said this in a statement, the Ukrainian News agency reports.

"Last week, the IAEA team at the South Ukraine NPP reported that its unit 2 was temporarily shut down following the actuation of electrical protections due to a transformer problem in the 330 kV open switchyard, located outside the NPP site. As a result of a short circuit, there was damage to the ceramic insulator, causing an oil leak that caught fire due to an electric arc. After the electrical connection was restored, the reactor was restarted and commenced supplying electricity to the grid after about 17 hours, reaching full power just over 24 hours after the shutdown

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, the Ministry of Energy continues to insist that there was no accident at the South Ukraine NPP, and all statements about this are russian propaganda.

Earlier, Member of Parliament from the Holos faction Yaroslav Zhelezniak accused the Minister of Energy Herman Halushchenko of lying when the latter had stated that the accident at the South Ukraine NPP had been an alleged fake of russian propaganda.