More than 6 million homes in Argentina were left without power Wednesday afternoon, after a fire reached the power lines between Campana and General Rodríguez. The incident affected the Atucha I nuclear power plant, causing the blackout.
According to local newspaper La Nación, 40 per cent of total electricity demand was affected, equivalent to 20 million people, including much of the Buenos Aires metropolitan area (AMBA).
The blackout in Buenos Aires was so severe that the governor, Axel Kicillof, had to suspend the opening of sessions of the provincial legislature.
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The blackout was believed to have been caused by a fire in a field near high-voltage power lines connected to the Atucha 1 nuclear power plant, Yanotti said. The plant was taken offline as a safety measure, causing widespread problems across the country, according to Nucleoelectrica, the country's national nuclear power authority.
Fire patterns at the site indicate that saboteurs set fire to the land under the high-voltage line, a senior government official said.
"It is not the kind of fire line you see when pastures are on fire," Ricardo Casal, legal secretary of the Ministry of Economy, told local news channels. "Instead, there are precise fires that, strangely enough, are under the transmission line."
The nuclear plant is still offline.
This is already the 2nd time in one month that a total electricity blackout has occurred. On 13 February 2023, the capital Buenos Aires was also without power for quite some time.
Whether the good relationship between Argentina and Russia has anything to do with it, remains an open question.
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