KYIV, July 12 – The occupied Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) is preparing to move reactor unit 4 from cold shutdown to hot shutdown – after which unit 5, currently in hot shutdown, will be placed in cold shutdown in order to carry out preventive maintenance activities that are only possible in cold shutdown.

"The other units remain in cold shutdown," the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said in a statement on Wednesday.

According to the IAEA, the site uses the steam generated from one reactor unit in hot shutdown for various nuclear safety purposes including the processing of liquid radioactive waste collected in storage tanks.