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Ukraine nuclear plant: How risky is standoff over Zaporizhzhia?
“I wouldn’t be too worried,” said Mark Wenman, head of the Future Doctoral Training Center for Nuclear Energy. “Zaporizhzhia was built in the 1980s, is relatively modern. It has a fortified containment building. It is 1.75m (5.75ft) thick, of heavy reinforced concrete on seismic foundations, and required a lot of work. much to break it.”