Trump-Putin talks focus on nuclear plant

U.S. President Donald Trump has indicated that the fate of Ukraine’s Zaporizhya nuclear power station is part of his ceasefire discussions with Russian President Vladimir Putin

Zaporizhya NPP (Russian-occupied)
Area of formerly flooded Kakhovka reservoir
Kyiv
RUSSIA
UKRAINE
Russian control as of Mar 18
KHERSON OBLAST
CRIMEA
ZAPORIZHYA OBLAST
DONETSK OBLAST
BLACK SEA
Sea of Azov
Odesa
UKRAINE
Zaporizhya
Kherson
Mykolaiv
Berdyansk
50km
30 miles
Nova Kakhovka dam (destroyed)
Russian recent advance
Dnipro river

Zaporizhya Nuclear Power Plant: Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, has six reactors capable of generating enough energy for four million homes

Cooling towers

Six Soviet-designed pressurised water reactors

Plant pictured before war

Plant has been shut down since being seized by Russia in 2022

Facility lost access to water from Kakhovka reservoir after Nova Kakhovka dam was blown up on Jun 6, 2023. It has since been using water from cooler pond, in which water levels are decreasing

Lack of water prevents start-up of more than two nuclear reactors and it would take at least one year to restart operations, experts say

Fighting and incidents in and around site have sparked fears of nuclear disaster, with experts warning radiation could spread across Europe

Sources: Reuters, ISW
Picture: Ralf1969
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