Over the river from a Russian-occupied nuclear plant, a Ukrainian town fears a spill
The small town of Nikopol, Ukraine, sits across the river from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Attacks are causing serious alarm for the community.
NIKOPOL, Ukraine — The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station sits a few miles across the river from this friendly, no-frills city of steel-pipe factories in south-central Ukraine. Tamara Korolkova, a 70-year-old grandmother, can see the plant's panorama on the horizon from the apartment building where she's lived for decades.
She used to admire its symbolism of a powerful independent Ukraine.
Now she says she has nightmares about the plant blowing up.
"All of us
