The ZNPP lost connection to the radiation monitoring station on June 24, limiting its external capacity to detect radiation release in an emergency.
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Personnel at the ZNPP informed IAEA experts that the plant lost connection to the radiation monitoring station, located 16 kilometers southwest of the main facility, on June 24.
Two substations were damaged in the temporarily occupied city of Enerhodar, where most of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) staff live.
The city where most staff of Ukraine's ZNPP live was left without electricity for 16 hours over the weekend after a second sub-station in the area sustained damage and was taken out of operation.
The Raduga substation was damaged by a drone attack the previous evening.
On Wednesday, another substation in Enerhodar, Luch, was destroyed.
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