Ukraine is operating nine reactors at three nuclear plants in the territory it controls, with six other units at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, outside the controlled territory.
After losing power from outside, experts have decided to shut the plant down for safety.Zaporizhzhi a is one of the ten largest nuclear power plants in the world. Russi a took control of the plant in March. But the plant is still being run by Ukrainian workers from Energoatom.the ...
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 appr...
The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency 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.
Ukraine's energy minister has said the country's operational nuclear plants should be reconnected to the grid by Thursday evening. But that doesn't includeEurope's biggest nuclear power plantin the southern region of Zaporizhzhia, which has been shelled repeatedly, and is still held hostage by...
Nuclear power plants rely on external sources of electricity for that cooling because if the reactor shuts down, you still need to run the cooling system for the heat to be taken out of the reactor. And so, this power plant, like all other well designed ...
A blast on Monday occurred near the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant. Here's what's going on there, as well as at Zaporizhzhia.
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...
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 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...