Zaporizhia
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 Two cooling towers at left, one largely obscured by the other, and the six reactor buildings viewed from the Nikopol shore. The large building between the cooling towers and the reactors, and the two tall smokestacks, are at the Zaporizhia Thermal Power Station, beyond the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant. | |
Zaporizhia is the administrative centre of Zaporizhia Oblast (region) in south-east Ukraine. The Zaporizhia Region covers an area of 27,183 square kilometres (10,495 sq mi), and has a population of 1,638,462 (2022 estimate).
This oblast is an important part of Ukraine's industry and agriculture. Most of the area of the oblast has been under Russian military occupation since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, including all of the coast, although the capital and the majority of the population remains under Ukrainian administration.
Annexation
On 30 September 2022, Russia declared it had annexed the Donetsk (Donetsk People's Republic), Luhansk (Luhansk People's Republic), Zaporizhia, and Kherson oblasts, despite having failed to occupy all of these Ukrainian territories. However, the disputed referendums and subsequent annexations are not internationally recognised.
To the south, Zaporizhia Oblast covers roughly 150 kilometres (93 mi) of coastline of the Sea of Azov, as part of a coastal region known as Pryazovia, also including the coastal regions of Kherson Oblast and Donetsk Oblast, to the west and east, respectively.
Nuclear plant
The Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Station in southeastern Ukraine is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and among the 10 largest in the world. It has been under Russian control since 2022. It was built by the Soviet Union near the city of Enerhodar, on the southern shore of the Kakhovka Reservoir on the Dnieper River. It was operated by Energoatom, which operate Ukraine's other three nuclear power stations.
The plant has six VVER-1000 pressurised light water nuclear reactors (PWR), each fuelled with 235U (LEU) and generating 950 MWe, for a total power output of 5,700 MWe. The first five were successively brought online between 1985 and 1989, and the sixth was added in 1995. In 2020, the plant generated nearly half of the country's electricity derived from nuclear power, and more than a fifth of total electricity generated in Ukraine. The Zaporizhia Thermal Power Station is nearby.
On 4 March 2022, days into the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces seized both the nuclear and thermal power stations. As of 12 March 2022, the Russian company Rosatom claimed control over the plant. Since its capture, the plant does not generate power and is mostly shut down.
Blaze extinguished
| Australia's ABC News reports the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Station blaze is extinguished |
On 12 August 2024, Mazoe Ford of ABC News reported:
- A fire at the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Station had been extinguished as Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of responsibility.
- The IAEA said dark smoke billowing from the northern side of the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant had followed reports of multiple explosions on 11 August.
- Ukraine's President Zelensky wrote on X that Russian forces were responsible for the fire.[1]
- Zaporizhzhia's Kremlin-installed governor said Ukrainian shelling caused the blaze.[2]
References
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