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<p>Of all the horrors of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/putin-bans-top-officials-from-quitting-during-ukraine-war">Putin’s war on Ukraine</a>, the most disastrous might be his constant threat to Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.</p>
<p>The Zaporizhzhia plant is a ticking <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/heres-what-putins-nuclear-disaster-would-really-look-like">nuclear time bomb</a>. Through accident, attack, or sabotage it could become the worst <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/russia-is-already-sabotaging-the-iaea-mission-to-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant-in-ukraine">nuclear catastrophe</a> since <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-created-genetically-mutant-dogs">Chernobyl</a>.</p>
<p>Concerns are rising as Ukraine prepares to launch its counter-offensive, which will likely involve intense fighting around the nuclear site.</p>
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Of all the horrors of Putin’s war on Ukraine, the most disastrous might be his constant threat to Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.
The Zaporizhzhia plant is a ticking nuclear time bomb. Through accident, attack, or sabotage it could become the worst nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl.
Concerns are rising as Ukraine prepares to launch its counter-offensive, which will likely involve intense fighting around the nuclear site.