Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

Context:

United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members expressed alarm at the prospect of a nuclear incident in Ukraine, at an emergency meeting on Friday, convened hours after a training building at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant caught fire, as Russians moved in on the facility and seized control of it.
The International Atomic Energy (IAEA) chief told the Council that no reactors had been damaged.

Zaporizhzhia NPP was built between 1984 and 1995 after it was decided in 1977 to construct it and in 1980, the stepwise construction of the plant power units was started.
In the period from 1984 to 1987 four power units had been put into operation.

A fire broke out in a training building outside Zaporizhzhia NPP during intense fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces.
However, Ukraine emergency services say they have extinguished a fire at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant but it caused massive panic across the world. Kyiv blames Russian military shelling for the blaze.
Russian forces have seized the largest nuclear power plant now.
A video feed from the plant verified by news agencies showed heavy shelling and smoke rising near a building at the plant compound.

The power plant is of strategic importance to Russia because it is only about 200 km from Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.
Zaporizhzhia is the largest of Ukraine’s four nuclear power plants, which together provide about half the country’s electricity.

Source: THE HINDU.