IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO TAKE stock of the situation regarding nuclear energy in Ukraine in the midst of Russia's invasion and the fighting that followed. There has been a real or imagined nuclear crisis every few days, from the capture of Chornobyl and then of Zaporizhizhia to the realisation that Russian forces really did dig trenches in the highly contaminated Red Forest. We still don't know all the details of what Russian forces did at Chornobyl, and we will probably never know the impacts on their health, if any. New myths and legends about that site are being written every day.Only one aspect has become clear: the first loss to the nuclear sector was trust in Russia, and the second was Rosatom's export prospects.I have nothing but respect for the Russian nuclear energy professionals I have met over the years, who are now seeing their careers and successful businesses being turned upside down through no fault of their own.
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