Ukraine nuclear plant: what happens if it releases a radioactive plume?

An atmospheric scientist describes how researchers would track a toxic cloud in the case of an accident at the occupied Zaporizhzhia power station.

Email Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Officials from the United Nations’ atomic-energy watchdog have this week begun inspections of southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, where shelling and fighting have raised the risk of a nuclear accident. Russian troops have occupied the nuclear plant — Europe’s largest — since March as part of their ongoing war in Ukraine. The international community has issued stark warnings that damaging some of Zaporizhzhia’s six reactors could lead to catastrophic meltdowns like those that oc

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