Ukraine worries about disaster as Russia targets nuclear power plants
VARASH, Ukraine The director of the largest nuclear power plant still under Ukrainian control was exhausted, curt with his replies and fidgeting with his glasses, which he turned around and around in his hands.
In the past two weeks, Ukraines military said it has shot down two Russian drones that approached as close as three miles from the plant in the northwestern city of Varash, which supplies 12 percent of the countrys electricity but that wasnt even the biggest of Pavlo Pavlyshyns concerns.
I always believed that after the Chernobyl disaster, Russians werent insane enough to risk another one, he said. But every day they are committing acts of terror, near or even inside each of our nuclear plants. The chance of another catastrophe is high.
Chernobyl, while decommissioned, houses thousands of spent cooling rods that if not properly cared for could lead to an increase in radioactive leaking at the site of the worlds worst nuclear disaster 36 years ago.
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