Holtec, a private US nuclear power company, said that Russia s occupation of the Zaporizhzhia plant is a grave threat to clean energy. Russia took control of the plant, Europe’s largest, shortly after the invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, 2022. The war has caused damage to the plant and damaged power lines, raising fears of […]
Nuclear's critics say it's too costly and building new plants is too time-consuming to do much to curb climate change, though some acknowledge that current reactors should keep running if they operate safely. In Ukraine, Holtec works on storage of spent nuclear fuel and wants to build next-generation small modular reactors there.