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Nuclear power plants: a risk in Ukraine?
Europe is worried about gas – but the real danger is nuclear, if a regional conflict were to lead to a Fukushima-style meltdown in any of the embattled nation’s 15 reactors, argues LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Airmen and civilians from the 436th Aerial Port Squadron at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, load ammunition and weapons bound for Ukraine January 21, 2022.
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THE US and its Nato allies are already in a panic over a potential energy crisis in Europe should Russia cut off gas supplies in an apparent effort to dampen European support for Ukraine in the ongoing dispute between the two former Soviet countries.
But the wringing of hands over gas supplies misses the greater danger: there are 15 nuclear reactors in Ukraine providing about 50 per cent of the country’s electricity.
Vulnerable to accident or sabotage, a major release of their radioactive inventories could render large areas of Europe uninhabitable.
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