Posted: 11th July 2022
The Russian army is transforming Europe’s largest nuclear power plant into a military base
overlooking an active front, intensifying a months long safety crisis for the
vast facility and its thousands of staff. At the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power
Plant in southern Ukraine, more than 500 Russian soldiers who seized the
facility in March recently have deployed heavy artillery batteries, and laid
anti-personnel mines along the shores of the reservoir whose water cools its
six reactors, according to workers, residents, Ukrainian officials, and
diplomats. The Ukrainian army holds the towns dotted on the opposite shore,
some 3 miles away, but sees no easy way to attack the plant, given the inherent
danger of artillery battles around active nuclear reactors.
Wall St Journal 5th
July 2022
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-army-turns-ukraines-largest-nuclear-plant-into-a-military-base-11657035694