Ukraine War: Zaporizhzhia is the largest of Ukraine's four nuclear power plants.
Vienna:
- Ukraine said Russian forces attacked the plant in the early hours of Friday, setting an adjacent five-story training facility on fire.
- Zaporizhzhia is the largest of Ukraine's four nuclear power plants, which together provide about half the country's electricity.
- This is the first time war has broken out in a country with such a large and established nuclear power programme, the International Atomic Energy Agency says.
- Zaporizhzhia's six units each have a net capacity of 950 Megawatts electric, or a total of 5.7 Gigawatts electric, according to an IAEA database. The first unit was connected to the grid in 1984, and the last in 1995.
- The power plant is of strategic importance to Russia because it is only about 200 km from Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.
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