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Detailed explanation-1: -Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, has lost its last remaining external power source as a result of renewed shelling and is now relying on emergency diesel generators, the U.N.

Detailed explanation-2: -Zaporizhzhia, Europe’s largest nuclear plant, gets power again : NPR. Zaporizhzhia, Europe’s largest nuclear plant, gets power again The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine went offline over the weekend after Russian shelling damaged the last remaining outside power source.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is not only Europe’s biggest, but among the 10 largest power plants in the world, built by the Soviet Union, which started construction in 1984.

Detailed explanation-4: -Japan’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) takes the current title of being the largest nuclear power plant in the world, boasting a net capacity of 7,965MW. About 220km away from the city’s capital, the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in the Niigata Prefecture has over seven boiling water reactors (BWR).

Detailed explanation-5: -In 2021, 13 EU countries had operational nuclear reactors: Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Germany, Spain, France, Hungary, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland and Sweden.