Ukrainian nuclear power plant operator Energoatom said all nuclear power plants in the country, including the Zaporizhzhia site seized by Russian military forces, are running stably. Ukrainian authorities earlier accused Russian forces of setting fire to a training facility adjacent to Zapo...
Ukraine is the largest country in Europe by territory (except Russia): Budget USD33.4 billion; Industries: coal, electric power, ferrous and nonferrous metals, machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, food processing Electricity production 177.3 billion kWh or 3,8 kWh per capita.Igor Ostash...
4 exploded at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, causing the worst nuclear accident in history. Now, thirty-five years later, smoldering nuclear “embers” are still buried within Chernobyl site, raising questions about just what might happen there—and what’s at stake. ➡ You ...
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KIEV, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Ukraine's existing nuclear power plants (NPPs) continue to operate stably, the country's state-run nuclear energy operator Energoatom said in a statement on Monday. "Radiation, fire and environmental conditions at NPPs and adjacent territories have not changed and ...
In 1954, history was made when nuclear fission technology was approved for commercial purposes and the first nuclear power plant started operation in the Russian city of Obninsk. The new energy proved to be an extremely reliable and stable form of electricity. Since nuclear power plants are only...
Even with the Zaporizhzhia plant's shutdown, the threat of nuclear disaster doesn't disappear, either there or at Ukraine's several other nuclear plants. "We are monitoring for each one of the other nuclear power plants," Grossi told reporters this week when asked about the risks to other...
as research into nuclear fission has been conducted in Kharkov since the 1930s. In addition, five nuclear power plants were built in Ukraine during the Soviet years: Zaporozhye, Rovno, Khmelnitsky, and South-Ukrainian, as well as the infamous Chernobyl, where an accident involving a power unit...
Ukraine's foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted, "Russian army is firing from all sides upon Zaporizhzhia NPP, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. Fire has already broke out. If it blows up, it will be 10 times larger than Chornobyl! Russians must IMMEDIATELY cease the fire, allow...
Ukraine relied for decades on Russia to fuel its vital nuclear power plants, but now there's fear Moscow could use the facilities as a weapon of war. Sep 21, 2023 Thieves may have sold radioactive scrap metal from Fukushima plant Japan's environment ministry says workers stole and sold...