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‘We’re playing with fire’: the Ukrainian nuclear plant held hostage by Russia
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FT.com, 2022-09-09
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London: The Financial Times Limited
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2022
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Four days earlier, Grossi had returned from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine, the biggest atomic facility in Europe, which has been continually fought over since it was captured by Russian forces in the early days of its Ukraine invasion. There he observed Russian military vehicles parked in the turbine halls, talked to the facility’s harassed Ukrainian staff and documented damage to the plant, including to areas used to store fresh nuclear fuel and radioactive waste. The containment structures, and the fact that Zaporizhzhia’s reactors would shut down automatically in the event of failure, set them apart from Chernobyl, where a reactor explosion in 1986 scattered radioactive material — estimated to be equivalent to four hundred times that released by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs — over the Soviet Union and parts of Europe.