It became known how many ZNPP employees went to work for the occupiers
7 January 09:18
Energoatom has reported that an additional 9,000 employees will be needed to complete the construction and construction of new power units at Khmelnytsky NPP. This was stated by the company’s chairman Petro Kotin, according to Komersant ukrainskyi with reference to Interfax-Ukraine.
“Everything will depend on how quickly it will be possible to deploy these large projects. Because the construction is as planned by Khmelnytskyi NPP, it requires an additional 9 thousand people. Therefore, of course, we will need to recruit additional people, and we are working on it,”
– Kotin explained.
He also noted that Energoatom cooperates with Ukrainian higher education institutions that train future specialists for the nuclear power industry. The company implements special programs with all polytechnic universities in Ukraine aimed at supporting the best teachers and students.
Traitors at ZNPP
According to Kotin, since the beginning of the full-scale war, the number of Energoatom employees has decreased from 35,000 to about 30,000. And most of them are employees of Zaporizhzhia NPP.
“There are 3,000 people who betrayed Ukraine, actually signed contracts with Rosatom, and stayed at the Zaporizhzhia NPP. Other people, about 2 thousand people, have left Ukraine and are abroad. There are about 5 thousand [ZNPP employees?] on the territory of Ukraine, they are all employed by us, respectively, at our other divisions,”
– the official said.
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ZNPP
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and the third largest in the world by total capacity. Located in the Zaporizhzhia region near the city of Enerhodar, it consists of six nuclear power units of 1 GW each. Construction began in 1981, and the first unit was commissioned in 1984. The last unit, the sixth, was commissioned in 1995.
ZNPP annually produced about 40 billion kWh of electricity, which was about 20% of Ukraine’s total power generation. It is also the first nuclear power plant in the country to have a dry spent fuel storage facility.
The Russian army seized ZNPP on the night of March 4, 2022, after shelling the nuclear facility. Russia has also occupied the city of Enerhodar, near which the nuclear power plant is located.
Since the beginning of the Russian occupation, Zaporizhzhia NPP has experienced eight full blackouts and one partial blackout, with the launch of emergency diesel generators and safety systems. According to Energoatom, their failure threatens to cause an emergency.
The last time the plant faced the threat of blackout was on August 23 this year.
