Russian strikes send nuclear power plant into emergency mode

We are meant to care about nuclear safety. Each time we are rolling a dice and if we allow this to continue time after time then one day our luck will run out. Saporizia nuclear power plant is running on emergency diesels. The last line of defense. This is the sixth time. Let me say it again. This is the sixth time that the Saporizia nuclear power plant has lost all of sight power and has had to operate in this emergency mode.

Let me remind you this is the largest nuclear power station in Europe operating for the sixth time under emergency diesel generators. What are we doing? How can we sit here in this room this morning and allow this to happen? This cannot go on. I am astonished by the complacency. Yes, the complacency. What are we doing to prevent this from happening? We are the IAEA. We are meant to care about nuclear safety. Each time we are rolling a dice and if we allow this to continue time after time then we are going to run out.

I call on everyone in this room today and elsewhere. We must commit to protect the safety and security of the plant and we need to commit now. What we need is action and we know what this means. I will continue my urgent consultations and contacts to protect the Saporizia nuclear power plant. Please support me. Thank you very much. I want to report that this morning at around 5 a.

m. local time Saporizia nuclear power plant lost all of side power when its last remaining 750 kilovolt line was disconnected. It's only remaining back up 330 kilovolt line having been damaged a few days ago and under repair. As a result all 20 of the site's emergency diesel generators were activated. The site's essential power is now being provided by eight of those diesels with the rest now in standby mode. And there is enough diesel on site for 15 days of operation. The two out of six units that were in hot shutdown are moving to cold shutdown.

This is the first time the site has lost all power since 23 November 2022 and follows reports of missile strikes across Ukraine overnight. Our ISAM teams on all the other NPPs in Ukraine have reported back to us this morning. At South Ukraine NPP there are reported losses of power lines but there are sufficient remaining available to provide off site power if required. The other operating NPPs, Hamnitsky and Rivne have not been directly affected though the plans have been managing power levels in accordance with greed requirements. Similarly there are no reports of Chernobyl NPP being affected.

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