Zelenskyy klingt alarmiert über einen beispiellosen Stromausfall im Kernwerk Zaporizhzhia

News snippet; Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday said the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has been off the grid for seven straight days, warning of the potential threat of a “critical” situation.
It is the longest outage at Zaporizhzhia since Russia invaded and seized the nuclear plant, Europe’s largest.

Zelenskyy said Russian shelling was preventing restoration of a power line needed to cool the reactors and prevent a meltdown.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN nuclear watchdog, said it was working with both sides to restore the external power line. Rafael Grossi said there was no immediate danger as long as diesel generators remained in operation, providing emergency power for the facility.
Zelenskyy, speaking in his nightly video address, said one of the diesel generators providing emergency power was no longer working, seven days after external power lines went down.

The reactors have been in shutdown for quite a while now, so most of the decay heat has dissipated. Even if the cooling fails there isn’t a major risk for a meltdown.