The UN's nuclear energy agency IAEA states that the power outage affected the structure surrounding the damaged reactor. A number of emergency diesel generators were needed to supply the structure with electricity.
"Today, a Russian attack on one of our transformer stations in Slavutych caused a power outage that lasted for more than three hours at the former nuclear power plant", stated Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyj on social media on Wednesday.
On Thursday, Ukraine's energy agency states that "everything is working as usual today".
According to IAEA, "the facility quickly switched to alternative lines and the power was restored, with the exception of the new safe confinement, which covers the old sarcophagus built after the Chernobyl accident in 1986”.
