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Ukraine/Russia War: Energy Supplies, Gas, Nuclear power issues & potential shortages - June 18, 2022 - current

International Atomic Energy Agency

Update 20 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine

MAR 13 2022

Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today that Ukrainian specialist teams had succeeded in repairing a power line needed to resume external electricity supplies to the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), four days after they were completely lost at the Russian-controlled site, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said.

The Director General received the news from the head of Ukraine’s nuclear power company Energoatom, Petro Kotin, who told him that the specialists had fixed one of two damaged lines and would now be able to deliver all required off-site power to the NPP, where various radioactive waste management facilities are located following the 1986 accident.

Ukraine’s regulator separately informed the IAEA that the power supply line was restored at 18:38 CET by the repair personnel of Ukrenergo, the country’s transmission system operator. The Chornobyl NPP continues to work on back-up diesel generators and will be reconnected to the Ukrainian electricity grid in the morning, it said.

... Earlier today, the Ukrainian regulator informed the IAEA that staff at the Chornobyl NPP were no longer carrying out repair and maintenance of safety-related equipment, in part due to their physical and psychological fatigue after working non-stop for nearly three weeks.

The staff of 211 technical personnel and guards have still not been able to rotate from the facility since the day before Russian forces entered the site on 24 February, the regulatory authority said, also voicing security concerns about transporting staff outside the Exclusion Zone set up after the accident. The regulator has no direct communication with the staff but receives information from off-site NPP management.

Director General Grossi said the increasingly dire situation facing personnel at the facility ...

...Ukraine has previously informed the IAEA that regular staff have continued to operate the Zaporizhzhya NPP and carry out their day-to-day work, but that its management is under the control of the commander of the Russian forces there. In today’s update, the regulator said it had been informed by personnel at the site that at least 11 representatives of the Russian state company Rosatom were also present there, without interfering with the operation of the nuclear facilities. ...

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pre...tor-general-statement-on-situation-in-ukraine
 
Chernobyl power line again damaged by Russia, Ukraine’s nuclear agency says

Today at 12:28 p.m. EDT

A high-voltage power line at the former Chernobyl nuclear plant has once again been damaged by Russian forces, Ukraine’s nuclear agency said Monday, just one day after Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko announced that power had been restored following a Russian attack last week that disconnected the site from the electricity grid.

“Reliable power supply to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is critical from the point of view of nuclear safety,” Ukraine’s nuclear agency said.

Ukrenergo, the Ukrainian utility that carried out the repairs over the weekend, said in a Facebook post Monday that the power line has again been damaged by “the occupants.” The company said its workers would have to return to the site to continue restoration.

Officials have expressed concern that a lack of power at the closed plant and surrounding area would jeopardize cooling systems for more than 20,000 spent nuclear fuel rods that remain at the site. ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/14/chernobyl-power-plant-russia-invasion/
 
Ukrainian authorities accused Russian troops of detonating ammo at Europe's largest nuclear power plant

Mon, March 14, 2022, 11:04 AM
Jake Epstein

Ukrainian authorities accused Russian troops on Monday of detonating ammunition at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

In a statement, Ukraine's communications center alleged that Russian forces blew up explosives next to the nuclear plant and that authorities were waiting for a response from the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Ukrainian officials also alleged that Russian forces plan to continue with explosions at the plant, and that staff had fled.

Energoatom, Ukraine's state nuclear energy company, said in a Telegram statement that 11 representatives of Rosatom, Russia's state atomic energy corporation, were at the nuclear plant when the explosions were reported.

"It is obvious that the detonation of ammunition on the site of the station is carried out with their direct participation," Energoatom wrote in the statement. "So it turns out that Rosatom is also involved in this terrorism."

Energoatom added: "All established international rules and requirements for nuclear and radiation safety are violated by this company."

Ukraine's parliament tweeted earlier on Monday that Russia planned "to begin 'disposal' of ammunition right on the site of the station near the ruins of the [Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant] training center." ...

https://sports.yahoo.com/ukrainian-authorities-accused-russian-troops-160414672.html
 
International Atomic Energy Agency

Update 24 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine

MAR 17 2022

Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today that all safety systems at the country’s largest nuclear power plant remained fully functional a day after the site lost connection to a third external power line linking it to the national electricity grid, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said.

Two off-site power lines, including one on standby, are still available to the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and there are no safety concerns, Ukraine’s regulatory authority added. ...

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pre...tor-general-statement-on-situation-in-ukraine
 
Update 28 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine

21 Mar 2022

Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that the long-delayed rotation of technical staff at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) was completed today, enabling them to go home and rest for the first time since Russian forces took control of the site last month, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said.

... An agreement had been reached on how to organize future staff rotations at the NPP, where various radioactive waste management facilities are located, it said.

Director General Grossi, who had repeatedly expressed deep concern about the well-being of the Ukrainian staff at the Chornobyl NPP, welcomed the completion of the staff rotation and again praised them for their courage and tireless efforts in carrying out their vital work tasks during extremely difficult and stressful conditions in the presence of foreign military forces. ...

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pre...tor-general-statement-on-situation-in-ukraine
 
IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency

Firefighters were trying to extinguish wildfires near #Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, #Ukraine told the IAEA.

Slight increases in caesium air concentrations detected in Kyiv and at two nuclear power plants, but they did not pose significant radiological concerns, it said.

2:25 PM · Mar 23, 2022 7h
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IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency

IAEA is continuing to engage with #Ukraine’s regulator to obtain further information about the fire situation near the #Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

https://twitter.com/iaeaorg/status/1506713642426904588?cxt=HHwWmMC5seWE9ugpAAAA
 
Wildfires break out in Chernobyl amid a non-functioning radiation-monitoring system

March 23, 2022
By Susan D’Agostino

Seven wildfires have broken out in the exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, according to a statement by Ukraine’s Parliament. The fires, which were observed via satellite, exceed Ukraine’s emergency classification criteria tenfold. Ukrainian officials stated that the fires were caused by “the armed aggression of the Russian Federation, namely the shelling or arson,” though this has not been independently verified. Wildfires risk mobilizing and dispersing radioactive contaminants left over from the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl.

Ukrainian firefighters have been unable to access the area since Russia took control in the first days of the war. Energoatom, Ukraine’s state nuclear company, also reported this week that Chernobyl’s radiation monitoring system is no longer working. Without the data that system would provide, radiation levels in the region may rise unchecked. Though the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is no longer operational, it requires constant management.

Ukraine’s State Agency on Exclusion Zone Management also reported this week that the Russian military destroyed a six-million-euro laboratory that, in part, worked to improve radioactive waste management, according to the Associated Press. The lab contained “highly active samples and samples of radionuclides” that could have been released, according to the agency.

Seasonal wildfires are common during spring and summer in the region surrounding Chernobyl. ...

https://thebulletin.org/2022/03/wil...-non-functioning-radiation-monitoring-system/
 
23/03/2022

Zaporizhzhya power plant in Ukraine: Arrangements in the event of a total loss of external power supplies


​IRSN publishes a new information report providing details of the arrangements planned in the event of a total loss of external supplies at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.

​The plant is currently connected to the Ukrainian electricity grid by two of the four 750 kV lines available. Two lines are currently unavailable due to the fighting; a third one was temporarily unavailable but was repaired on the evening of March 18, 2022. The power plant is also connected to the Ukrainian 330 kV grid, to which the Zaporizhzhya thermal power plant and the Dnipro and Kakhovka hydroelectric power plants are connected nearby. This 330 kV line is currently available.

The Zaporizhzhya NPP provides electricity to the Ukrainian power grid but when its reactors are shut down, the Ukrainian power grid provides power for its monitoring and backup systems. The availability of these external power supplies is therefore an important issue for ensuring the safety of the reactors.

On the basis of the information available to IRSN, the resources planned for the Zaporizhzhya power plant would enable the site teams, in the event of failure of the islanding transient, to cope with a situation of total loss of external power supplies for a period of at least 10 days. This conclusion is subject to the reliability of the equipment implemented, their initial fuel supply, the availability of crews and the absence of other factors that could aggravate the situation.

​Download IRSN information report​​ from March 22​​, 2022​​ "Arrangements in the event of a total loss of external power supplies of the Zaporizhzhya power plant in Ukraine" (PDF)



https://www.irsn.fr/EN/newsroom/News...-supplies.aspx
 
Update 31 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine

MAR 24 2022

Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today that Russian forces were shelling Ukrainian checkpoints in the city of Slavutych where many people working at the nearby Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) live, putting them at risk and preventing further rotation of personnel to and from the site, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said.

Ukraine’s regulatory authority said the shelling was endangering “the homes and families of those operational personnel that ensure the nuclear and radiation safety” of the Chornobyl NPP, which is under the control of Russian forces since 24 February. Slavutych is located outside the Exclusion Zone that was established around the NPP after the 1986 accident.

Director General Grossi expressed concern about this development, which comes just a few days after technical staff at the Chornobyl NPP were finally able to rotate and go to their homes in Slavutych and rest after working for nearly four weeks without a change of shift, and he said the IAEA would continue to closely monitor the situation. Staff now working at the site also come from Slavutych.

Earlier today, the regulator also informed the IAEA that it does not expect wildfires burning in the vicinity of the Chornobyl NPP to cause any significant radiological concern, a day after the country’s regulator said Ukrainian firefighters were trying to extinguish blazes in the area. ...

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pre...tor-general-statement-on-situation-in-ukraine
 
Russian troops 'firing at nuclear reactor' as minister warns of 'major disaster' - Kharkiv's Institute of Physics and Technology

23:05, 26 Mar 2022
UPDATED 23:07, 26 Mar 2022

Russian forces are firing at a nuclear research facility in the city of Kharkiv, Ukrainian officials said.

The nation's parliament announced it was not possible to estimate the damage due to the ongoing clashes in the area.

It comes two weeks after a previous Russian attack on Kharkiv's Institute of Physics and Technology, which is home to a nuclear reactor core.

A Ukrainian politician warned that the latest shelling risked a 'major environmental disaster'.

The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine said: "The continuation of its bombardment can lead to severe radiation consequences with contamination of nearby territories."

Emine Dzheppar, Ukraine's first deputy minister of foreign affairs, added: "The Russian aggressor fired rocket 'Grad' systems on the territory of the Kharkiv Institute, where the nuclear installation 'Source of Neutrons' is located, in the active zone of which 37 fuel nuclear cells were loaded. ...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russian-troops-firing-nuclear-reactor-26565217
 
The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent
⚡️ Kharkiv nuclear research reactor hit by Russian shelling.
The nuclear research reactor at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology has come under renewed Russian fire.
Ukrainian authorities have not yet been able to assess damage to the site, due to constant shelling.
2:52 PM · Mar 26, 2022·
 
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...og-chief-ukraine-talk-safety-support-83736485
UN nuclear watchdog chief in Ukraine to talk safety support

The U.N. nuclear watchdog says its director-general has arrived in Ukraine for talks with senior government officials on delivering “urgent technical assistance” to ensure the safety of the country’s nuclear facilities

ByThe Associated Press
29 March 2022, 08:50

LVIV, Ukraine -- The U.N. nuclear watchdog's director-general arrived in Ukraine on Tuesday for talks with senior government officials on delivering “urgent technical assistance” to ensure the safety of the country’s nuclear facilities, the agency said.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said Rafael Mariano Grossi’s aim is to “to initiate prompt safety and security support” for Ukraine’s nuclear sites. That will include sending IAEA experts to “prioritized facilities,” which it didn't identify, and sending “vital safety and security supplies” including monitoring and emergency equipment...
 
Russian troops leaving Chernobyl nuclear site 'have acute radiation sickness'

20:57, 30 Mar 2022
UPDATED 23:08, 30 Mar 2022

Russian troops leaving the Chernobyl nuclear site have 'acute radiation sickness', it has been claimed.

The Pentagon confirmed Russian troops were pulling out of the irradiated nuclear wasteland, but an employee at the Public Council at the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management said they were running away "irradiated".

He said they were being transported by the bus load to a special radiation medical centre in Gomel, Belarus to help treat their radioactive poisoning.

In a post on facebook, Yaroslav Yemelianenko, who worked to keep the site safe, said: "Another batch of radiation irradiation of Russian terrorists who captured the Chernobylzone, was brought to the Belarusian center of radiation medicine in Gomel today.

"Digging the trenches in the Rudu forest, bitches? Now live the rest of your short life with this. There are rules of handling this territory.

"They are mandatory to perform because radiation is physics - it works regardless of status or chases. If you have minimal intelligence in command or soldiers, these consequences could have been avoided."

He went onto quote a Belarusian TV channel which said "about 7 medical PAZs arrived at the Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology.

...This shocking revelation comes as US intelligence confirmed Russian soldiers have withdrawn from the site....

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/retreating-russian-troops-leaving-chernobyl-26596437
 
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