Russian shelling around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has renewed concerns about damage to the site. In March, Nature assessed the possible dangers of warfare at the nuclear plant
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But the incident has highlighted the possible dangers of warfare around nuclear sites, he and others say. Ukraine has 15 working nuclear reactors, which ordinarily produce roughly half of the country’s electricity. With 6 reactors and a capacity of nearly 6 gigawatts, Zaporizhzhia is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. It is now occupied by Russian forces, as is Chernobyl — the site of the worst nuclear accident in history, which took place in 1986.
Koji Okamoto, a nuclear-safety researcher at the University of Tokyo, agrees. “The containment structure may have a resistance to normal weapons,” he says.
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