War in Ukraine: the Russians approach the second nuclear power plant
“Last night could have been the end of the history of Ukraine and Europe”. After hours of bombing and “nuclear terror”, as he denounced Volodymyr Zelensky, the nuclear power plant of Zaporizhzhia, the largest in Europe, on the banks of the Dnipro river, fell into Russian hands and the workers are now working “under the threat of arms”. “They knew what they were hitting, they targeted the site directly,” accused the Kiev leader, who immediately heard Joe Biden and Boris Johnson, evoking a narrow escape risk of contamination six times worse than Chernobyl.
The armed forces of Russia they are approaching the second largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine. This was stated by the US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, according to which, “the Russian forces are now about thirty kilometers away, and are continuing to approach, from the second largest nuclear plant in the country”. This is the Yuzhnoukrainsk plant in Mykolaiv oblast in southern Ukraine.
War in Ukraine, because Russian bombs risk creating a nuclear catastrophe
But the war really worries a lot about the nuclear consequences also because Ukraine is a fundamental site in this sense. In Ukraine there are 4 plants in operation with 15 reactors producing 13,823 megawatts, 55% of Chernobyl’s requirement was 3,800 and caused 65 deaths in 1986. The press explains everything: “Ukraine has four nuclear power plants in operation, equipped with a total of 15 operational reactors. Among them Zaporizhzhia, the largest in Europe, which came under attack Thursday night and is now controlled by the Russian army. Of the 15 reactors 6 are in Zaporizhzhia. To the north Rivne, near the border with Poland and Belarus, has 4 reactors. Khmelnitsky, more moved within the country, has two. To the south Mykolaviv (about 500 kilometers from Kiev, 130 from Odessa ), has three functioning reactors, not far from the territories occupied by Russian troops. All together, the 4 power plants produce 13,823 megawatts, enough to cover 55% of the country’s energy needs. The Chernobyl site (3800) is added to the bill. megawatt), the scene of the historic explosion of April 26, 1986, definitively closed on December 15, 2000 and also occupied “.
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