Ukrainian state-run nuclear operator Energoatom is considering a move to relaunch two power units at Europe’s largest Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant, which has been occupied by Russian forces since early March.
The last operating reactor at the plant was shut down on September 11, Energoatom President Petro Kotin told the Associated Press.
The reactors could be restarted to ensure the NPP safety, as the cold weather is about to set in.
“If you have low temperature, you will just freeze everything inside. The safety equipment will be damaged,” he said in his office at the company’s Kyiv headquarters.
“So you need heating and the only heating is going to come from the working reactor,” Kotin said in an interview. (Ukrinform/Business World Magazine)
