Fears for all Ukraine’s nuclear plants after emergency shutdowns
Posted: 27th November 2022
A Russian serviceman guards the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station earlier this year. Photograph: AP
Russian attacks cut off essential power to the stations last week, forcing all four of them into high-risk mitigation procedures
Julian Borger in Kyiv
Sat 26 Nov 2022 18.19 GMTThere are growing fears that Russia’s relentless targeting of Ukraine’s electricity grid will threaten the safety of the country’s nuclear power plants, in the wake of an unprecedented emergency shutdown on Wednesday.