Zaporizhzhia Power Plant
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Context
- Russian forces in Ukraine have been shelling the Zaporizhzhia power plant.
Details
- The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, built between 1984 and 1995, is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and the ninth largest in the world.
- In normal times it produces one-fifth of Ukraine’s electricity and almost half the energy generated by the country’s nuclear power facilities.
- The 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 contested Donbas region and 550km south-east of Kyiv.
Fig: Nuclear Power plants in Ukraine
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