Situation at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is under control despite Kakhovka HPP's destruction

Energoatom, Ukraine's nuclear power state enterprise, shared the information.

"Despite the destruction of the Kakhovka HPP dam by the Russian occupiers, the situation remains stable and under control," the statement said.

Currently, the water level in the cooling pond of Zaporizhzhia NPP stands at 16.58 meters, while the water level in the TPP channel, which supplies the plant's pond, is at 11.15 meters. "This is enough to meet the needs of the plant," Energoatom stated.

The water level in the canal is not falling, as it no longer depends on the Kakhovka reservoir.

Photo: Energoatom

"It is important to note that the power units of Zaporizhzhia ZNPP have not been in operation since September 2022. Consequently, there has been no active evaporation of water from the cooling pond during this period," Energoatom explained.

Information available regarding the situation at ZNPP

Russian troops occupied Zaporizhzhia NPP in late February 2022. Since then, personnel and military equipment have been permanently stationed there, which the invading forces store in the machine rooms and from time to time bring to positions to shell the territories of the Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk region, located on the other side of the Kakhovka reservoir.

An IAEA monitoring mission is working there to ensure that the plant is not used as a military base, it is not attacked or fired upon, and that external power supplies are not interrupted. However, blackouts at the NPP occur constantly. Since last year, Russian troops have started bringing explosives to ZNPP.

In May 2023, Russian forces had placed explosives in the turbine room of the fourth power unit of the occupied Zaporizhzhia NPP. They also almost completely destroyed the emergency preparedness and response system at the nuclear power plant.

On June 22, IAEA Director General Grossi said after visiting ZNPP that the situation there was extremely unstable.

On the same day, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that intelligence had received information that Russia was considering a scenario of a terrorist attack on the temporarily occupied ZNPP that would cause a radiation release. He also emphasized that the world has enough power to prevent any radiation incidents - it needs to put pressure and act.

Meanwhile, Russian leader’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Zelenskyy's statement a lie.

In turn, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine expects a clear assessment by the IAEA of Russia's criminal actions and has appealed to the international community, in particular the G7 and the EU, to take urgent measures to prevent a nuclear disaster at the Zaporizhzhia NPP.

In the event of a terrorist attack on the Zaporizhzhia NPP in Enerhodar, the Russian occupying army will not be able to control its consequences. A report by the Institute for the Study of War suggests that Russia may be signaling preparations for sabotage at the plant in an attempt to dissuade the Ukrainian Armed Forces from conducting counteroffensive operations in the area.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs has also deployed relief headquarters, and rescuers will conduct training to eliminate the consequences of a possible Russian terrorist attack on the Zaporizhzhia NPP.

Russia has completed preparations for a terrorist attack at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP): it has deployed equipment containing explosives at 4 of its 6 units

On June 25, President Zelenskyy held talks with Biden, Trudeau, and Duda, given that "the world is not responding sufficiently to the situation at ZNPP."