Kursk NPP Unit No. 3 was unloaded by 50% as a result of transformer fire

Due to the ignition of a transformer for its own needs at the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), caused by the fall of a Ukrainian drone, unit No. 3 was half unloaded. This was announced by Rosenergoatom on August 24.

"On August 24, at 00:26 Moscow time, a combat unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was shot down near the Kursk NPP by air defense work The Armed Forces of Ukraine. During the fall, the device detonated, as a result, the transformer for its own needs was damaged. The local fire was extinguished by fire crews. As a result, block N3 was unloaded by 50%," the Telegram channel said.

Rosenergoatom also added that the radiation background at the industrial site of the adjacent territory has not changed and corresponds to natural values.

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