Energy in Ukraine spend $1bn in a solar power park in the nuclear disaster area in Ukraine. Ukraine was 8th top nuclear electricity producer in 2009. 46.7% of domestic electricity generation was nuclear. This was the 2nd largest share, only France was higher. The largest nuclear power plant in Europe is in Ukraine. Energoatom (National Nuclear Energy Generating Company of Ukraine) is the state nuclear company founded in 1996. It has about 38,000 employees. The 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Northern Ukraine was the world's most severe nuclear accident. Lack of coal for Ukraine's coal-fired power stations due to the War in Donbass and
Peaceful nuclear explosion Mediterranean Sea to the Qattara Depression in the Western Desert of Egypt using nuclear demolition. This project proposed to use 213 devices, with yields of 1 to 1.5 megatons detonated at depths of 100 to 500 meters, to build this canal for the purpose of producing hydroelectric power. The Smiling Buddha, India's first explosive nuclear device was described by the Indian Government as a peaceful nuclear explosion. In Australia, nuclear blasting was proposed as a way of mining iron ore in the Pilbara. Apart from their use as weapons, nuclear explosives have been tested and used, in a similar manner