What attack on Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, means

The Ukraine emergency services said that there had been no changes in the radiation levels of the plant and no essential equipment was harmed.

New Delhi: The Russian forces in the wee hours of Friday attacked Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, triggering alarm all across the Western region of an irreversible crisis.

Though the Ukraine emergency services said that there had been no changes in the radiation levels of the plant and no essential equipment were harmed, the mere attack on the facility will certainly have some implications.

Here is what the attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant means

Research by specialists for Greenpeace International concludes that the safety of Zaporizhzhia is severely compromised by the war.

In a worst-case scenario, where explosions destroy the reactor containment and cooling systems, the potential release of radioactivity from both the reactor core and the spent fuel pool into the atmosphere could create a disaster far worse even than the Fukushima Daiichi catastrophe of 2011.