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Capture of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant: “It is obviously a war objective”
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Here is the sarcophagus surrounding the protective zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
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By: Florent Guignard Follow
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The Russian army seized this Friday, March 4, the Zaporijia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, located in the south-east of Ukraine.
Interview with Benjamin Hautecouverture, senior researcher at the Foundation for Strategic Research, specialist in international security issues and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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After a fire caused by fighting between Russians and Ukrainians, officials at the Zaporizhia power plant assured that nuclear safety was now "guaranteed", with normal radiation levels.
The International Atomic Energy Agency called
“
to cease the use of force
” and warned of a “
serious danger if the reactors are affected
”
.
Can these fights really endanger the installation and risk a new nuclear accident?
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