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| Ukrainian Nuclear Plant Is Just One of Innumerable Problems for Its Neighbors | Ukrainian Nuclear Plant Is Just One of Innumerable Problems for Its Neighbors |
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| Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, keeps warning of an impending nuclear tragedy. His military intelligence chief, Kyrylo Budanov, recently said the Russians have “drafted and approved” a plan to sabotage the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Europe’s biggest. | Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, keeps warning of an impending nuclear tragedy. His military intelligence chief, Kyrylo Budanov, recently said the Russians have “drafted and approved” a plan to sabotage the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Europe’s biggest. |
| Many local officials have fallen into line, and last week communities across central Ukraine snapped into action and held emergency drills to prepare themselves for a disaster that the officials believe could spread a radioactive cloud over the entire area. | Many local officials have fallen into line, and last week communities across central Ukraine snapped into action and held emergency drills to prepare themselves for a disaster that the officials believe could spread a radioactive cloud over the entire area. |
| But here on the streets of Nikopol, the city that lies just across the Dnipro River from the Russian-occupied nuclear plant, its cooling towers poking up through the afternoon haze, the attitude is a little different. | But here on the streets of Nikopol, the city that lies just across the Dnipro River from the Russian-occupied nuclear plant, its cooling towers poking up through the afternoon haze, the attitude is a little different. |
| “I’m not worried,” said Nadia Zhylina, a retired factory worker. “Not at all.” | “I’m not worried,” said Nadia Zhylina, a retired factory worker. “Not at all.” |
| She was wheeling a cart down a sunny boulevard, toenails painted, mascara on. The only thing she was radiating was calmness. | She was wheeling a cart down a sunny boulevard, toenails painted, mascara on. The only thing she was radiating was calmness. |