The Russians turned the ZPP into a repair base

According to Oleg Korikov, the Chief State Inspector of Nuclear and Radiation Safety, the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant has turned from the manufacturer to the consumer of electricity. As a result of the occupation, a significant degradation of nuclear and radiation safety took place at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. About it reported V. O. Heads of the SNRCU - Chief State Inspector of Nuclear and Radiation Safety Oleg Korikov on Tuesday, January 10, at a briefing.

According to Korikov, the ZPP does not produce electricity, but only consumes it. Currently, all 6 power units are in a stopped state, but the Zaporizhzhia NPP receives electricity from the power system of Ukraine. Electricity is needed for safety systems, including those that provide residual heat removal from nuclear fuel. According to the state inspector, now the Russians are used as a military base, in particular, there are repairing military equipment.

"As a result of the occupation, there was a significant degradation of nuclear and radiation safety at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. Finding Russian military, weapons, explosives, military equipment at the ZPP has nothing to do with nuclear and radiation safety. Already there are also military equipment, ”Korikov added.

We will remind, on January 4, the head of "Energoatom" Petro Kotin reported that the only realistic way to return the Zaporozhye atomic power plant under the control of Ukraine is to deduct it through the Armed Forces. At the end of December 2022, the Ministry of Energy spoke about the tricky plan of the Russian Federation on Zaporizhzhya NPP. According to the Minister of Energy Herman Galushchenko, Russia proposes to replace military armed forces with Rosgvardians.