Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
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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 built by the Soviet Union near the city of Enerhodar, on the southern shore of the Kakhovka Reservoir on the Dnieper river. It is operated by Energoatom, who operate Ukraine's other three nuclear power stations.
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
Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
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The Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast is an ongoing military occupation of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Oblast by Russian forces that began on 24 February 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine as part of the southern Ukraine campaign. It was administrated under a Russian-controlled military-civilian administration until 30 September 2022, when it was illegally annexed to become an unrecognized federal subject of Russia.
Ivan Fedorov, Ukrainian-recognised Mayor of Melitopol
Yevhen Balytskyi, Russian-installed Mayor of Melitopol
Russian President Vladimir Putin with pro-Russian leaders of the occupied territories on 30 September 2022
IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi and other mission team members at the nuclear power plant on 1 September 2022