Greenpeace fears for there is no danger of the largest in the European Union Zaporizhzhya NPP

International environmental organization Greenpeace is concerned about the security of Zaporizhzhya NPP by fighting in the Ukraine, in the opinion of an expert on nuclear energy Tobias Muenchmeyer, a nuclear power plant cannot withstand the fire of the heavy guns, and informs.

now combat operations are conducted at a distance of approximately 200 kilometers from the nuclear plant, the reactors are not sufficiently protected from fire, writes DW.

in the region there are many anti-tank guns, which is able to break the shell of these boilers, " Deutsche Welle word expert Greenpeace on nuclear energy Tobias Muenchmeyer.

Even if a strike should not be with the most nuclear reactor, and the power grid, it increases the likelihood of bringing to disaster. In this case fails the cooling system of the nuclear reactor, the expert said " Greenpeace " and reminded that the failure of the cooling system led to the accident at the Japanese nuclear power plant " Fukushima ".

Zaporizhzhya NPP is the largest energy facility in Ukraine and in the EU with an installed capacity of 6000 MW. At ZNPP operated six power units with a capacity of one million kW each.

in General on 28 August at the nuclear power plants of Ukraine in the work of 13 of fifteen units. Radiation, fire and environmental condition at industrial plant sites - within normal limits.


Kyiv authorities since April of conduct in the East of Ukraine military operation directed against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat of residents of Donbas. According to the latest information from the UN, from mid April to Ukraine forcibly deprived of life, more than 2 and a half thousand civilians, about six thousand wounded.

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