'Fukushima-level' accident possible at Zaporizhzhia: expert

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Ukrainian and Russian-installed officials have in the last 48 hours reported shelling near Europe's largest nuclear power plant, with both sides blaming each other. Radiochemist Boris Zhuikov told Reuters that if the reactor cooling system is damaged, "a rather severe accident is possible, not at the Chernobyl level, but at the Fukushima level, when volatile radionuclides, for example, Iodine-131, Cesium-137, are released."

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