“There could be a disaster many times greater than the one in Fukushima and even Chernobyl.” Ukrainian technicians at the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia are sounding the alarm as Russian soldiers load the plant with military equipment. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, it is even “a miracle that a nuclear disaster has not happened yet”. Can it just go wrong? What happens then? We asked Ines Venneman of the nuclear watchdog FANC.
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