The risks to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia power plant, explained

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Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant is also its most vulnerable.

As reported by VOX.

(The record needs to be set straight on an error reported in the article. The article reports that the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was designed to withstand shelling or other military attack. This is not true. See, for example, this New Scientist article, “Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant ‘not designed to withstand fighting’.)

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