Russian military had attacked Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on March 4, consequently a fire broke out in a training building outside the plant causing panic across the world.
- The attack renewed fears that the invasion could result in damage to one of Ukraine’s 15 nuclear reactors. It could trigger another emergency like the 1986 Chernobyl accident, the world’s worst nuclear disaster currently in Ukraine.
About Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
- The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and the ninth largest in the world.
- It was built between 1984 and 1995. It has six reactors, each generating 950MW, and a total output of 5,700MW, enough energy for roughly 4m homes.
- It produces one-fifth of Ukraine’s electricity and almost half the energy generated by the country’s nuclear power facilities.
- The Zaporizhzhia plant is located in south-east Ukraine in Enerhodar on the banks of the Kakhovka reservoir on the Dnieper river.
- It is about 200km from the Donbas region and 550km south-east of Kyiv.
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