ZThe Aporozhskaya NPP will now work for Russia, but it is ready to supply Ukraine with electricity, provided that it is paid for, the deputy Prime Minister said. He wants to see Zaporozhye “in a friendly Russian family”
Zaporozhye NPP
The work of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant located in the Power plant controlled by the Russian military will be reoriented to Russia, but the authorities are ready to arrange electricity supplies from it to Ukraine for money, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin told reporters.
“If the energy system of Ukraine is ready to accept and pay, then it will work for Ukraine. Won’t accept— so it will work for Russia—,— he said.
According to Khusnullin, all the jobs at the NPP will be saved: “We have a lot of experience working with nuclear power plants, our companies in Russia have this experience. There is no doubt that it will work.”
The Deputy Prime Minister said that nuclear electricity is a commodity that cannot be put in a warehouse, and there are no questions where to sell it…> there won’t be».
According to Khusnullin, the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine should be integrated into Russia and in the future “work in our friendly Russian family”. According to the Deputy Prime Minister, residents of the region will receive salaries and pensions in rubles in May. “And we believe that gradually the ruble will replace the hryvnia,” he said (quoted by RIA Novosti).
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Zaporizhia NPP is located in Energodar, it is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe by installed capacity. It has six VVER-1000 power units. The first was commissioned in December 1984, the sixth in October 1995. On February 28, four days after the start of the military operation in Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the taking of the territory of the Zaporozhye NPP under control.
Despite this, the management of the station remained with the Ukrainian operators. Rosatom stated that Russian specialists were providing them with advisory assistance. In mid-March, the Russian state corporation assured the IAEA that it did not intend to establish full control over the Zaporozhye NPP. In April, according to the IAEA, the concern”Rosenergoatom” (part of “Rosatom”) sent eight nuclear specialists to the plant, who demanded daily reports from the NPP management on “confidential issues” on the operation of the facility.
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