{"id":1279790,"date":"2025-08-14T10:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/difficulties-with-water-supply-to-the-power-units-of-the-plant-were-recorded-at-the-zapadnaya-npp\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T10:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:32:07","slug":"difficulties-with-water-supply-to-the-power-units-of-the-plant-were-recorded-at-the-zapadnaya-npp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/difficulties-with-water-supply-to-the-power-units-of-the-plant-were-recorded-at-the-zapadnaya-npp\/","title":{"rendered":"Difficulties with water supply to the power units of the plant were recorded at the Zapadnaya NPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The IAEA reported that the Zapadnaya NPP is experiencing increasing difficulties in providing water supply for the plant&#8217;s 6 power units.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaea.org\/newscenter\/pressreleases\/update-309-iaea-director-general-statement-on-situation-in-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was stated by<\/a> the agency&#8217;s CEO Rafael Grossi.<span id=\"cc\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Experts at the Zaporizhzhia NPP say that there are growing difficulties in ensuring a reliable water supply for the 6 reactors that are in a state of cold shutdown. Their safety systems, especially in hot weather conditions, when high evaporation intensity requires constant access to water.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The group received technical information on the distribution of water throughout the site, including information on the supply of water to nuclear safety and support systems,&#8221; the agency said.<\/p>\n<p> In recent weeks, IAEA employees at the ZNPP have been monitoring the condition of the cooling systems.<\/p>\n<p> It is noted that the ZNPP reactors have been in a cold shutdown state since last year, but they still need water for safety systems, reactor cores, and spent fuel aging pools.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/bilia-zaporizkoi-aes-spalakhnula-pozhezha-v-rayoni-vantazhnoho-portu-shcho-vidomo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">, a fire hazard was recorded at the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia NPP &#8211; this time in the cargo port area near the power units<\/a> . Dry reeds were burning at the site of the destroyed Kakhovka reservoir.<\/p>\n<p> We would like to add that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/dii-rf-na-zaes-nablyzhaiut-yevropu-do-iadernoi-katastrofy\/\">the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine expressed deep concern over the latest IAEA data<\/a> , which once again confirm Russia&#8217;s cynical and irresponsible use of the Zaporizhzhia NPP as a military facility. The department emphasized that the station has effectively become a &#8220;nuclear shield&#8221; to cover the shelling of Ukrainian civilian infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IAEA reported that the Zapadnaya NPP is experiencing increasing difficulties in providing water supply for the plant&#8217;s 6 power units. This was stated by the agency&#8217;s CEO Rafael Grossi.\u00a0 Experts at the Zaporizhzhia NPP say that there are growing difficulties in ensuring a reliable water supply for the 6 reactors that are in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1025596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76878],"class_list":["post-1279790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1025596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}