I know that there's never been a war in the vicinity of a nuclear reactor before but I don't believe that this conflict will lead to a radioactive cloud over central or western Europe.
What worried me about that assault was that while they were targeting a building that's a bit away from the reactor, they managed to hit other buildings well away from the one on fire that are close to it.
Yes stop Panicking and scare mongering...yes a few fires but this station has good protection around it and only a few reactors on line...let's not all panic ok ...calm down...jst go on the American news stations they not even covering it .so it's not a serious attack .the Russians knows what they are doing..
spokesman of the press service of the nuclear power plant
Doesn't exactly fill me with confidence......
It’s a huge site and we are only seeing a fuzzy view of a car park. Hard to really assess what’s going on.
The two large stacks are a coal fired plant on the same site. The six dome shaped structures are the nuclear plants and the stubby round chimney is a cooling tower which seems to be used by the entire site (that just contains misting water.)
That a really big complex though.
its sad, the Russians now control this and 25% of the country can be switched off from the grid by them now as punishment
Which way is the wind blowing?
From Twitter, unconfirmed of course.
From the north west based on this:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=33.30,43.99,2304/loc=34.142,47.321
The camera is on one building further back from where it's marked as being. Just to the right of the reactor.
The Russians should not be shooting anywhere near a nuclear power plant but also Ukrainian troops should not be firing from them either. Maybe at the peace talks they seem to be having some agreement can be made that no troops of both nations cannot be in proximity of 5kms from any nuclear reactor site so nothing like this can happen again.
Phew 👀
Where ever it's located, the one building getting shelled looked like the one marked as museum or near to it. It shifted around a good bit but stream bandwidth went downhill, so hard to tell the angle of other views depicted. Hope that was the worst of it we viewed.
There’s discussion online from Ukraine that seems to identify it as an education centre - so I’m guessing it’s a museum / visitors centre that was on fire.
The whole notion of firing anything in the vicinity of a nuclear plant is crazy. The same also applies to certain chemical, pharma and biopharma facilities. Risks are enormous.
It's a huge plant, 6 interconnected plants, but the technology involved is completely different to Chernobyl. That explosion was largely due to a very bad design flaw. These VVER plants are genuinely very safe and even used in Finland.
Worst case scenario there would likely be quite localised and contained. The bigger risk is probably ancillary equipment and fuel storage ponds. Still not a very good thing to tempt fate with that kind of facility. Wouldn’t be in anyone’s interest to have it go badly wrong.
I'm sure that'd be fine with the Ukrainians, but the "peacekeepers" want to destroy the Ukrainian infrastructure, so they wouldn't agree to not taking power plants.
"The Russians know what they are doing"? I'm not sure that's the case at any level when it comes to this conflict.
Hopefully the safety features built into these reactors would be sufficient to deal with significant damage to the power plant.
If the Russians knew what they were doing they wouldn’t be firing weapons anywhere near that facility. The fact that they are doing so suggests they are behaving very recklessly.
That’s also confirmed by most of the rest of their conduct and planning during this. It looks all rather ramshackle, incompetent and based on just sheer numbers and brute force.
The risks at that plant aren’t the reactors. They’re in heavily reinforced concrete containment designed to withstand an aircraft crash or missile.
The risks are more around radiation leaks and damage to onsite equipment that could do local damage or render the plants inoperable.
The single biggest risk is actually a national grid failure and an inability to get access to diesel for back up generators to run cooling systems. That’s what caused Fukushima and those plants have relatively comprehensive containment systems too.
It’s reasonable to be very concerned about this. It’s not comparable to Chernobyl however.
Latest information is that all is safe and fire occurred in training building/museum and there is no such threat.
More if they are taking over Ukraine and whatever their plans maybe if there taking parts of the country over or all of it, they will need these up and running fast enough so it's the worse place to fight in. It's not like an electricity plant or the likes. Damage or destruction to these benefits neither side, these aren't simple places to rebuild and the costs involved would be huge.
A lecture from 2015 that predicts the outcome . He only gives the EU meddling a brief mention. I liked his idea of a buffer zone in Ukraine but no one listened !
A more recent article on him .
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-john-mearsheimer-blames-the-us-for-the-crisis-in-ukraine
The EU accepts Ukraines application to join thus stoking the fire .
https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-invasion-zelenskyy-receives-standing-ovation-in-eu-parliament-as-russian-ministers-speech-prompts-un-walkout-12554834
Zelenskyy has been speaking to Biden and Johnson after appealing to world leaders as Russia carried out nuclear terrorism, emergency UN security council meeting Called from the morning
Spoken like a true keyboard warrior hope you are going to step up and take in few refugees or go to fight there visa free now .
Better to reason than to start WW 3 as Zelenskyy wants the UN to intervene .I am not a fan of mass hysteria like you its akin to sheep mentality
Thread on the weather forum in case there is damage to a nuclear site resulting in fallout - maybe the weather experts can alert us in advance to wind patterns that could result in fall out in Ireland.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2022/0304/1284325-ukraine-main/
fire under control, supposedly that powers 40% of Ukraine. I`d say Putin would have no problem destroying it and the fall out be damned
It kind of feels Putin is seeing just how much he has to poke to start a world war. Accidentally shooting multiple enemy ships, targeting nuclear plants, threatening war, blowing up civilian buildings, arresting grannies and children... I'd say he's amazed at the West's "restraint" to date.
Have the Russians left the area then, and stopped trying to take the plant?
He told Macron he's taking the lot, and Lukashenko's map gaff showed Moldova will be taken as well.
I hope people never forget the politicians in this country who regularly defended Russia on many occasions
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