{"id":1346934,"date":"2026-01-20T18:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/chernobyl-npp-connected-to-the-power-grid-the-ministry-of-energy-spoke-about-the-radiation-background-at-the-station\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T18:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:00:20","slug":"chernobyl-npp-connected-to-the-power-grid-the-ministry-of-energy-spoke-about-the-radiation-background-at-the-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/chernobyl-npp-connected-to-the-power-grid-the-ministry-of-energy-spoke-about-the-radiation-background-at-the-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Chernobyl NPP connected to the power grid: the Ministry of Energy spoke about the radiation background at the station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Energy workers connected all facilities of the Chernobyl NPP to the Unified Energy System of Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mev.gov.ua\/novyna\/chornobylska-aes-zazhyvlena-vid-obyednanoyi-enerhosystemy-ukrayiny-popry-nichnu-ataku-na\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was reported<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by the Ministry of Energy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, specialists managed to revive the New Safe Confinement and the spent nuclear fuel storage facilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The agency assured that the nuclear power plant has sufficient fuel reserves and working backup power sources in case of repeated attacks by the Russian Federation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Power engineers and personnel of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant will continue to monitor the situation in an intensified mode.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The Ministry of Energy of Ukraine emphasizes that such actions of the aggressor are absolutely unacceptable. This is a gross and cynical violation of all fundamental principles of nuclear and radiation safety. By creating risks of power outages at the Chernobyl NPP facilities, the enemy is jeopardizing the security of not only Ukraine, but also the entire European continent,&#8221; the message says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, the radiation background at the industrial site and in the exclusion zone does not exceed control levels, and there is no threat to the population and the environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, the IAEA stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/cherez-rosiyskyy-obstril-chaes-vtratyla-vse-zovnishnie-elektropostachannia\/\">the Chernobyl NPP lost all external power supply<\/a> as a result of the Russian night attack on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy workers connected all facilities of the Chernobyl NPP to the Unified Energy System of Ukraine. This was reported by the Ministry of Energy. In particular, specialists managed to revive the New Safe Confinement and the spent nuclear fuel storage facilities. The agency assured that the nuclear power plant has sufficient fuel reserves and working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1242832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1346934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346934","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1242832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}