Worst nuclear accident: This 1986 file photo shows the Chernobyl nuclear plant damaged from an explosion and fire in one of its reactors, which sent large amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere. – AP
THE Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, lies along the Dnieper River in southeastern Ukraine. After Russian forces brutally invaded Ukraine over six months ago, they gained control of the nuclear facility early in the fighting.
They based soldiers and heavy equipment there and have been using the plant as a defensive shield, lobbing shells from there and hoping Ukrainians would not risk hitting one of the six power units by counterattacking.
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