{"id":11825,"date":"2023-06-08T05:05:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T23:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11825"},"modified":"2025-03-30T05:40:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T00:10:54","slug":"kakhovka-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kakhovka-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"Kakhovka Dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Kakhovka Dam:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located on the <strong>Dnieper or Dnipro River in southern Ukraine<\/strong> which was built as part of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant.<\/li>\n<li>The reservoir also supplies water to the <strong>Crimean peninsula and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is<strong> Europe\u2019s largest<\/strong> and gets its cooling water from the reservoir which is located on the southern side, now under Russian control.<\/li>\n<li>It holds water a volume about equal to the Great Salt Lake in the U.S.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about the Dnieper<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>fourth longest river in Europe<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It runs a total length of 1,368 miles extending from the uplands of Russia\u2019s <strong>Valdai Hills.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It flows in a southerly direction through western Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine before emptying into the <strong>Black Sea.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is nuclear plant?<\/h3>\n<p>A nuclear plant, also known as a nuclear power plant or nuclear reactor, is a facility that generates electricity through the process of nuclear fission. It utilizes the controlled splitting of atomic nuclei to produce heat, which is then converted into electrical energy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-global\/kakhovka-dam-ukraine-russia-war-8648412\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>What is the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine \u2013 and what happened?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kakhovka Dam is located on the Dnieper or Dnipro River in southern Ukraine which was built as part of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}