The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in southeastern Ukraine is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and among the 10 largest in the world. It has been under Russian control since 2022. It was
Two cooling towers at left, one largely obscured by the other, and the six reactor buildings viewed from the Nikopol shore. The large building between the cooling towers and the reactors, and the two tall smokestacks, are at the Zaporizhzhia thermal power station, beyond the nuclear plant.
Reactor 2 during the September 2022 IAEA inspection
The dry cask storage facility for spent nuclear fuel
IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi and mission team members at the plant in September 2022
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Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
…Dnieper river. From 1996 to 2022, it was operated by Energoatom, which operates the other three nuclear power stations in Ukraine. The plant has six VVER-1000 pressurized light water nuclear reactors (PWR), each fueled with 235U (LEU) and generating 950 MWe, for a total power output of 5,700 MWe. The first…
View of the Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant site, with four operational VVER-1000 reactors
VVER-440 reactor hall at Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant
Construction of a VVER-1000 reactor vessel at Atommash
Control room of a VVER-1000 in 2009, Kozloduy Unit 5