"The last operating reactor at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant has been put into a ‘cold shutdown’ as a safety precaution amid catastrophic flooding from the collapse of a nearby dam, Ukraine’s nuclear energy agency said Friday. As Russia’s war on Ukraine drags on through its 16th month it's forces continued pummeling the country with missiles and drones overnigh. Ukrainian officials reported at least four deaths and damage to a military airfield. Five out of six reactors at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is occupied by Russian forces, are already in a state of cold shutdown, in which all control rods are inserted into the reactor core to stop the nuclear fission reaction and generation of heat and pressure. ...”
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant's power units have not been operating since September.
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