The company added that it had disconnected the sixth unit of the plant from the electricity network.
Kyiv has asked residents in the areas occupied by Russia around the nuclear plant to evacuate for their own safety.
Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of bombing the nuclear plant, which heralds a nuclear catastrophe.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for demilitarization of the area around the nuclear plant.
Zaporizhia nuclear power plant
- The Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant has been designed since the times of the former Soviet Union and construction began in 1980.
- The Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant contains 6 reactors, called VVIR-1000 V-320 “hydro-hydro-capacity” reactors.
- The reactors are cooled by water and their neutrons are cooled down by water, and they work with uranium-235, whose half-life is estimated at more than 700 million years.
- Its sixth reactor was connected to the grid in 1995.
- It is the largest in Europe and one of the 10 largest power plants in the world.
- Each of the six Zaporizhia units has a net capacity of 950 MW, or a total of 5.7 GW.
- It covers 20 percent of Ukraine’s electricity consumption.
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