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An administrative worker at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has hailed its staff as “heroes,” a day after the plant was disconnected from the country’s power grid for the first time in its history.
According to Ukraine’s nuclear operator Energoatom, the plant’s last remaining power line had disconnected twice Thursday following fires at a nearby thermal power plant. The loss of power led to backup diesel generators being “immediately activated” to avert a “radiation disaster,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Speaking to CNN Friday, the administrative worker — whose identity is not being disclosed for their security — stated that “everything is already ok.”
“Yesterday there was no electricity, no water, nothing. But everything is already ok, the men [operational staff] at the NPP [Nuclear Power Plant] are just smarties and heroes,” said the employee, who has spoken with CNN on previous occasions.
While the power supply line had been restored, all six reactors at the plant remain disconnected from the country’s electricity grid, Energoatom said Friday.
“Although all blocks [reactors] are stopped for the first time in history. You need steam to get them going. And nothing produces it, everything is standing,” the worker added.
The plant employee said with “shelling around the station and the city, smoke from fires, dust from the ash dump of a thermal power plant” that the “situation sometimes looks like the end of the world” at the plant. “It’s really tough when there are strong winds.”
Ukraine has accused Russian troops of using the plant as a shield, risking a potential disaster. In response, the Kremlin has alleged that Ukrainian forces are shelling the plant.
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