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...
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 a...
In an eerie reminder of a possible nuclear catastrophe, a senior Ukrainian energy official revealed that the attack on transmission towers that cut off the delivery of electricity from Ukraine to Crimea also created an emergency situation at nuclear power plants. The apparent act of sabotage in Ukr...
In a significant announcement on August 7, Ukraine's Energy Minister, Herman Halushchenko, revealed that an impressive 60% of the nation's electricity is currently generated by nuclear power plants. This declaration underscores the pivotal role of nuclear energy in Ukraine's power system, ...
The aim of this paper is to examine the lessons learned till mid-2023 from the war in Ukraine to find out how attacking or seizing nuclear power plants (NPPs) can be utilised to advance military and political objectives during an armed conflict. The qualitative research ap...
The country’s power plants urgently need specialist equipment that Ukraine can no longer make at sufficient speed and scale. Some 51 DTEK employees have been wounded in attacks since 2022, and three have been killed. Staff say they keep working despite the danger because they know ...
VIENNA, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Tuesday that the agency will step up assistance to Ukraine to protect the country's energy infrastructure, which is vital to the safety of its nuclear power plants (NPPs). ...
Power is needed to run pumps that circulate cooling water to the reactors, preventing overheating and--in a worst-case scenario--a radiation-spewing nuclear fuel meltdown. Other recent Russian strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure have targeted power plants in the north and a dam in the south. Th...
The ministry said reconnecting the power unit would have "a significant impact on the stability of the power system and reduce the existing electricity shortage". Ukraine is operating nine reactors at three nuclear plants in the territory it controls, with six other units at the Zaporizhzhia nucl...
Before the war, the plant accounted for about half of the electricity generated by nuclear power in Ukraine. The country has 15 reactors at four active plants, and also is home to the decommissioned Chernobyl plant, the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster. RUSSIANS TAKE CONTROL Russian troops ov...