What is at stake at Ukraine’s Zaporizhia nuclear plant
A disaster on the scale of Chernobyl is unlikely—but radioactive emissions are a possibility
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This article appeared in the The Economist explains section of the print edition under the headline “What is at stake at Ukraine’s Zaporizhia nuclear plant”
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