#Ukraine: ZNPP alert because of a power line anomaly. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute
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🗓️ 11 August 2023
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#Ukraine: ZNPP alert because of a power line anomaly. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kyiv-says-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-switched-reserve-power-line-2023-08-10/
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bachelorette. |
| 0:10.0 | Here's John Bachelorette. |
| 0:12.0 | Her headline from Ukraine Conflict. |
| 0:15.0 | Keith says that Parisian nuclear plants switched to reserve power line. |
| 0:19.0 | This is Reuters in these last hours. |
| 0:21.0 | You will recall the Parisian nuclear power plant in the combat zone. |
| 0:27.0 | For a year now has been occupied by the Russian forces, bad actors, |
| 0:31.0 | who deceive routinely about whether they are placing munitions or military personnel or weapons of war in the complex. |
| 0:40.0 | This is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, six container vessels. |
| 0:45.0 | One may be on cold shutdown, one may be on hot shutdown. |
| 0:50.0 | The facts are hard to be certain of. |
| 0:54.0 | But right now, there is this fresh report. |
| 0:57.0 | This is fresh within hours. |
| 0:59.0 | Ukraine's Russian-backed zaparition nuclear plant again lost connection to its last remaining main external power lane overnight, |
| 1:08.0 | and was switched to reserve line, state-owned power generating company, and our go-atom said. |
| 1:15.0 | Within these last hours what does that mean? |
| 1:18.0 | It means danger, danger, danger. |
| 1:20.0 | It has happened before. |
| 1:22.0 | Repeatedly, there has been threat to the power that must flow into the containment vessel to keep the water circulating, |
| 1:30.0 | to keep the rods from overheating, to keep catastrophe. |
| 1:34.0 | Now, if that power is off, there is supposed to be a backup generator with fuel oil that has come in several times over these last months. |
| 1:43.0 | What is striking here is that Keefe is warning that something has happened. |
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