Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and one of the 10 largest in the world, located in southeastern Ukraine. It has six VVER-1000 pressurized light water nuclear reactors, each generating 950 MWe, for a total power output of 5,700 MWe. The plant was built by the Soviet Union and operated by Energoatom from 1996 to 2022, generating nearly half of Ukraine's electricity from nuclear power and over a fifth of the country's total electricity in 2020. The plant was seized by Russian forces on March 4, 2022, and is currently not generating power. The spent nuclear fuel is stored in cooling pools and then transferred to an on-site dry cask storage facility. The plant's electricity is supplied to the Ukrainian grid through several transmission lines, and modernization work has been completed on some of the reactors to extend their lifespan.learn more on wikipedia