{"id":147838,"date":"2022-10-09T11:24:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T16:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/ukraine-nuclear-plant-has-lost-final-external-power-link-un-watchdog-says"},"modified":"2022-10-09T11:24:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T16:24:13","slug":"ukraine-nuclear-plant-has-lost-final-external-power-link-un-watchdog-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/ukraine-nuclear-plant-has-lost-final-external-power-link-un-watchdog-says","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine nuclear plant has lost final external power link, UN watchdog says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ukraine-nuclear-plant-has-lost-final-external-power-link-un-watchdog-says2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BERLIN (AP) \u2014 Ukraine\u2019s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, has lost its last remaining external power source as a result of renewed shelling and is now relying on emergency diesel generators, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The International Atomic Energy Agency said the plant\u2019s link to a 750-kilovolt line was cut at around 1 a.m. Saturday. It cited official information from Ukraine as well as reports from IAEA experts at the site, which is held by Russian forces.<\/p>\n<p>All six reactors at the plant are shut down but they still require electricity for cooling and other safety functions. Plant engineers have begun work to repair the damaged power line and the plant\u2019s generators \u2014 not all of which are currently being used \u2014 each have sufficient fuel for at least 10 days, the IAEA said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (AP) \u2014 Ukraine\u2019s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, has lost its last remaining external power source as a result of renewed shelling and is now relying on emergency diesel generators, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Saturday. The International Atomic Energy Agency said the plant\u2019s link to a 750-kilovolt line was cut [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}