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Chernobyl plant will save country about $200m a year in payments to Moscow

Source: Nucnet
Date: Thursday, 21 December 2023
Original article: nucnet.org/news/kyiv-removes-dependence-on-russia-with-commissioning-of-central-spent-storage-facility-12-3-2023

Regional authorities confirm that the six-unit facility in southeast Ukraine has been seized by Russian forces The fire broke out in a training building outside the station in the early hours of Friday, after being shelled by Russian forces, Ukrainian authorities said.

What is the significance of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station?

Source: Nucnet
Date: Saturday, 05 March 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/everything-you-need-to-know-about-what-s-happening-at-europe-s-largest-nuclear-power-station-3-5-2022

‘No casualties or destruction’ at location of 1986 accident, IAEA reports The site of the Cnernobyl nuclear power plant near the Ukraine's border with Belarus. The site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant close to Ukraine’s border with Belarus has been captured by Russian troops, according to an advisor to the Ukrainian president’s office quoted by Reuters.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted yesterday that Russian forces were trying to seize the Chernobyl station, site of the 1986 nuclear accident.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement that Ukraine had informed the agency that “unidentified armed forces” had taken control of all facilities of the state-owned Chernobyl NPP enterprise, located within the exclusion zone. The facilities include the shut-down Units 1, 2, and 3, the destroyed Unit 4 and a two recently constructed spent nuclear fuel storage facilities.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Saturday, 26 February 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/chernobyl-nuclear-site-captured-by-russian-forces-says-president-s-office-2-5-2022

Thirty-five years on from the Chernobyl accident, Ukraine and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have highlighted their commitment to cooperation in nuclear power. Meanwhile Ukraine’s nuclear regulator has launched the start of operations at a new storage facility for used nuclear fuel at the Chernobyl site.  

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Title