The Weekend Intelligence: A nuclear catastrophe waiting to happen

The Russian occupation of the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant in 2022, was the first time such a site was drawn formally into war. The second soon followed: Zaporizhia, Europe’s largest nuclear plant.

Jason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence”, travelled to Ukraine to meet with plant workers, scientists and nuclear-agency officials, discovering that even now there is no safety-preserving playbook for such invasions. And it seems inevitable that this story will play out again elsewhere—plan or no plan.

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