Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, MAY 12, 2025

Posted: 12th May 2025

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine has been caught in the crossfire of war. Now it’s apparently a bargaining chip for peace. Why would this work? 

Revive Zaporizhizhia? No thanks!

Henry Sokolski reveals in a column for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that the 6-reactor Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is being brokered as part of a peace deal in Ukraine. But Ukraine won’t give it up and nor will the Russians. Why does the US want to run it? Sokolski’s article runs through a long list of challenges just to restart the reactors, leading to only one logical conclusion: not to. Renewables represent a far better choice for Ukraine—and everywhere else. READ MORE

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