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Explosions shake Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power plant

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A view shows the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the course of the Ukraine-Russia conflict outside the Russian-controlled city of Enerhodar in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine August 30, 2022. [Reuters]

Powerful explosions shook the area around Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant Saturday and again Sunday morning, with the U.N.'s atomic energy chief calling the fighting between Russia and Ukraine in the region "extremely disturbing."

The blasts abruptly ended a period of relative calm at the facility, Europe's largest nuclear plant.

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