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Elissa Nadworny

The last reactor at Zaporizhzhia, Europe's largest nuclear power plant, has stopped

This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is occupied by Russian forces, in Ukraine on Aug. 28. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

KYIV, Ukraine — The nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, controlled by Russia and at the center of much international concern, has announced they are powering down the final working reactor.

In a message Sunday morning, the nuclear operator Energoatom said that power lines had been restored to the Zaporizhzhia power plant but that they were powering down Reactor No. 6, preparing it to be cooled and transferred to a safer state.

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