Three decades after the world’s worst nuclear accident, the home of the shuttered Chernobyl power plant remains more reliant than ever on nuclear power.
When a botched test in the early hours of April 26, 1986, blew apart the reactor’s core and spewed huge amounts of radiation into the atmosphere, nuclear power accounted for about a quarter of the energy mix of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Today, nuclear power produces more than half of Ukraine’s energy — the result of war, politics and economics.
As recently as 2012, nuclear power accounted for about 45 percent of Ukraine’s energy mix, with coal and …read more
Source: POLITICO – Europe Edition
