Nuclear Power Plant
Zaporizhzhia NPP — capture, shelling and indefinite shutdown
March–September 2022; continuing war risk
Enerhodar, Ukraine
What happened
Russian forces seized Europe's largest nuclear plant. Repeated shelling damaged electrical infrastructure, caused multiple losses of off-site power and disconnected operating units; all six reactors subsequently entered shutdown states. Cooling and safety systems continued, but the IAEA has repeatedly described the site as precarious.
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Infrastructure
- Nuclear Power Plant
- Latitude
- 47.5100°
- Longitude
- 34.5900°
Attribution
Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.