{"id":1400857,"date":"2026-06-03T10:30:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T07:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zaporizhzhia-npp-in-blackout-again-what-is-known-about-the-situation-at-the-station\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T10:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T07:30:27","slug":"zaporizhzhia-npp-in-blackout-again-what-is-known-about-the-situation-at-the-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/zaporizhzhia-npp-in-blackout-again-what-is-known-about-the-situation-at-the-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Zaporizhzhia NPP in blackout again: what is known about the situation at the station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the night of Wednesday, June 3, the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia NPP again found itself in a complete blackout. This is the 17th blackout at the plant since its capture by Russian troops and the fifth since the beginning of this year alone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> As <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/energoatom_ua\/26969\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> by Energoatom, at 23:44 the Ferrosplavna-1 power transmission line was disconnected, after which the station lost external power supply.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Critical systems continued to operate thanks to diesel generators,&#8221; the company noted.<\/p>\n<p> According to the IAEA, the cause of the outage could have been a drone strike on the Nikopolska substation on the other bank of the Dnieper, which led to the loss of the only power line that remained available to the station.<\/p>\n<p> Experts emphasize that such incidents pose serious risks to nuclear safety, as each loss of external power supply forces critical systems to operate in emergency mode.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The return of the Zaporizhzhia NPP to the control of Ukraine is the only condition for guaranteeing its safe operation and preventing a possible nuclear accident,&#8221; Energoatom said.<\/p>\n<p> The situation at Europe&#8217;s largest nuclear power plant remains tense and requires constant monitoring by international organizations.<\/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:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/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>On the night of Wednesday, June 3, the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia NPP again found itself in a complete blackout. This is the 17th blackout at the plant since its capture by Russian troops and the fifth since the beginning of this year alone. As reported by Energoatom, at 23:44 the Ferrosplavna-1 power transmission line was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1300684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76874],"class_list":["post-1400857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400857","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1300684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}