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Ukraine: Last reactor at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has shut down
•Nuclear operator Energoatom said that one of the power lines was restored late Saturday, allowing plant operators to shut down the last reactor
Ukraine says Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant offline after Russian shelling
•The International Atomic Energy Agency said it was informed by Ukrainian authorities that the reserve line 'was deliberately disconnected in order to extinguish a fire'
UN agency set to inspect Russian occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine
•International Atomic Energy Agency will visit the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, which has been under Russian occupation since early March 2022 and has recently been the centre of fighting around the Dnieper river raising the fears of radiation leak
How dangerous is the situation at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant?
•Shelling at the power plant could badly damage the nuclear reactor and release radiation into the atmosphere. The reactors are built to withstand a minor internal explosion of a pressurised water pipe, but not a huge explosion
Russian shelling close to Ukraine's biggest nuclear plant kills 4
•Russia fired 60 rockets at Nikopol city, near Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, damaging 50 residential buildings power lines, leaving the city's over hundred thousand residents without electricity
Cancer patients in Japan's Fukushima seek damages from nuclear plant
•It is the first group lawsuit filed by Fukushima residents over health problems allegedly linked to the disaster, their lawyers say
Europe's largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine's Enerhodar on fire after Russian shelling
•The attack renewed fears that the invasion could result in damage to one of Ukraine's 15 nuclear reactors and trigger another emergency like the 1986 Chernobyl accident
Tokyo earthquake might've caused additional damage to the Fukushima nuclear plant
•There was a drop in water levels in the Unit 1 and 3 reactors indicating that the existing damage to their primary containment chambers was worsened.
Japan to release more than a million tons of treated water into the sea, from Fukushima nuclear plant
•Environmental activists have opposed the proposal while fishermen and farmers fear that consumers will shun products from this region.
Ukrainian firefighters battle two blazes near Chernobyl nuclear power plant; over 60 acres of forest affected
Trendingdesk •The Chernobyl nuclear plant was evacuated in 1986 following an explosion that caused radioactive contamination.