Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

Howitzers started shelling on the Ukrainian town of Nikopol from the side of Russia-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.

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Experts have repeatedly raised an alarm over the plant being in an active combat zone. The International Atomic Energy Agency has underlined that the current situation poses a grave risk of a nuclear catastrophe.

About the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant –

• Located in southern Ukraine on the banks of Kakhovka reservoir on the Dnipro (Dnieper) river.
• Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant is Europe’s largest, and 10th biggest in the world.
• Before the war started, it produced half of Ukraine’s power with a total capacity of 5,700 MW. The plant has six reactors with a capacity of 950 MW each.
• Geographically, the plant is located 200-km from Russia-annexed Crimea, and 500-odd km from Ukraine’s capital Kyiv.
• It is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and among the 10 largest in the world. The plant has 6 VVER-1000 pressurised light water nuclear reactors (PWR).