Ukraine’s Reckless Nuclear Response
BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Wikimedia Commons
The ongoing war in Ukraine is not exactly a conducive environment to building new nuclear power plants.
Obviously, if your country has been invaded by a foreign power, putting your 15 commercial nuclear reactors at risk of destruction that could lead to a massive radioactive release, rendering your country and others beyond uninhabitable, there is only one clear solution: load up with more new nuclear power plants.
Just this past week, the Ukrainian energy minister, Herman Halushchenko, announced that his country had ordered two new Westinghouse AP1000 reactors for the Khmelnytskyi site in the western part of Ukraine. The two reactors currently there already had to be shut down last...










