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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sophie Wingate

UNBELIEVABLE: Ukraine power plant attack unlikely to cause nuclear disaster experts | History Defined

AP

Russia’s shelling of a nuclear power station in Ukraine was unlikely to trigger a Chernobyl-style nuclear disaster, experts have said, though Moscow’s motives remain unclear.

A fire broke out at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant – the largest in Europe – after it was shelled in the early hours of Friday.

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