"Ukraine says stepping up protection of nuclear plants"

Map showing Ukraine's four nuclear power plants, with 15 operating atomic reactors. Zaporizhzhya, Europe's largest nuclear power station with six operating reactors, is located just north of Crimea, and just east of the border with Russia. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant (not shown), with one destroyed and three permanently closed reactors, is located about 100 km (62 miles) north of Kiev, near the border with BelarusAs reported by Reuters, the interim government of Ukraine has called upon the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency to send monitors to its 15 operating atomic reactors, and to take other actions, to deter Russian military attack given the current, escalating Ukraine-Russian territorial dispute.

Ukraine also notified the IAEA that it would be strengthening security at its four nuclear power plants.