‘Shocking’ store of over 3,000 spent fuel rods stand in containers in an open-air yard just 200km from Ukraine’s warzone and highlight wider tensions over energy relations with Russia More than 3,000 spent nuclear fuel rods are being stored in an open-air yard just over 100 miles from Ukraine’s front line of fighting, in conditions environmentalists describe as “shocking”. The fuel rods are housed in metal casks within towering concrete containers close to a perimeter fence at Zaporizhia, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. We know about the weak links in the plant [security]… But I doubt that that these …read more
Source: The Guardian
