So, on August 25 at 15:53 ??the power unit number four (VVER-1000) of the Rivne nuclear power plant was disconnected from the network - by activating the generator's auto-protection. Such data was disseminated earlier by the National Power Generation Company.

This event was already qualified at the level of "zero-off-scale" - according to the classification scale of nuclear events INES. Radiation, as well as the fire situation at the said nuclear power plant and adjacent territories has not been changed and is within the framework of the current standards - they stressed at the same time in the company.

As reported URA-Inform, previously the power unit was shut off at Zaporizhzhya NPP.