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Advertisement Corporate image published by the Russian state atomic energy monopolist Rosatom of four nuclear reactors at the Rostov nuclear power station.
One of the four reactors at the facility producing electricity for southwest Russia and Kremlin-occupied regions of east Ukraine went offline on Tuesday.
Officials said the emergency shutdown was safe and there was no radiation threat.
Advertisement The statement said nothing about the nuclear accident at the Rostov nuclear power station, the single largest generator of power for the grid in southwest Russia.
By July 18-19, DonEnergo corporate messaging had ceased predicting when customers’ lights and appliances might again have power.
That was not the case and power cuts and blackouts were being reported across the peninsula, Kyiv Post review of local chat groups found. »