Berlin The stress on the Zaporizhia power plant crew can only be guessed at: the war is raging outside – and now inside too. The largest nuclear power plant in Europe, which with its six reactors is on the Dnepr in the front area, is occupied by Russia – and is now to be disconnected from the Ukrainian grid. This could not only endanger Ukraine’s power supply. The risk of a nuclear accident is also increasing.
The power plant has long been part of the Russian economic and energy war. The issue is on the agenda of the UN Security Council, and the International Atomic Energy Agency sees the situation on the ground out of control.
The seven leading democratic economic powers are calling on Moscow to return the power plant to Ukraine’s control. But it doesn’t look like that. An overview of the five greatest dangers.
1. The power plant as a weapon of war
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