Global outcry after nuclear plant attack
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World leaders condemn the “reckless” assault on Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine as the site is brought under Russian control
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Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
Produces total of 6,000 megawatts of power – one-fifth of Ukraine’s electricity

Mar 4: Training building set ablaze by Russian shelling
No reactor damaged and no nuclear material leaked, says IAEA

Six reactors

200m 650ft
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Chernobyl
Under Russian control

Power plant
Operating nuclear reactor 
Decommissioned reactor

RUSSIA 
Held by Russian-backed separatists

POLAND
BELARUS
Rivne
Khmelnytskyi
Kyiv
UKRAINE
BLACK SEA
Zaporizhzhia
SLOVAKIA 
HUNGARY
ROMANIA
South Ukraine
MOLDOVA

Territory controlled by Russia
Crimea: Annexed by Russia in 2014

200km 125 miles

 
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Sources: Reuters, World Nuclear Association, IAEA Picture: Google Earth
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