Aug. 12, 2024 (EIRNS)—Last night, a fire broke out at a cooling tower at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant in Russia. It had been hit by Ukrainian drones, this time causing more damage than any of the many attacks upon the plant over the last two and a half years. Not properly appreciated is that Russia has deprived itself of the energy from the plant for most of its time there, as the Ukrainian shelling doesn’t allow for the safe management of active nuclear reactors. The six reactors have been in a “cold” state for quite a while.
