
Rosatom General Director Alexey Likhachev announced the existence of an approved plan to bring the Zaporozhye NPP to its design capacity, the implementation of which depends on reducing military risks associated with strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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The Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is under the control of Russian forces, but its work is complicated by its proximity to the front line and regular shelling.
“Rosatom has this plan both in their heads and on paper, approved by the order of the general director of the Rosatom state corporation, and we will come to it, to a plan to reach capacity, at the slightest opportunity, with the removal of military risks,” Likhachev told reporters.
He expressed regret that military risks due to strikes by the Ukrainian Armed Forces are only growing, which prevents the implementation of the plan to launch the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

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