Russia and Ukraine have accused one another of shelling Europe’s largest nuclear energy plant, stoking worldwide fears of a disaster on the continent.
The Zaporizhzhia plant is in southern Ukraine, close to the city of Enerhodar on the banks of the Dnieper River. It is likely one of the 10 greatest nuclear crops on this planet. Built in the course of the Soviet period, it has six reactors with a complete capability of 5,700 megawatts. Three of the reactors are in operation.
Before the battle, the plant accounted for about half of the electrical energy generated by nuclear energy in Ukraine. The nation has 15 reactors at 4 energetic crops, and can be residence to the decommissioned Chernobyl plant, the positioning of the 1986 nuclear catastrophe. (Read extra)
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