And yes, the world’s largest nuclear plant is in Ukraine. It operates at SIX GIGAWATTS. And yes it was predictable as the Ukrainian leader publicly planned a 200,000 strong counter offensive right in that region. (Source)
First thing is first. The reactor itself is “out of control” and the UN Nuclear Chief has been begging both parties to let them in to fix it.
(Above link from August 3rd)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. nuclear chief warned that Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine “is completely out of control” and issued an urgent plea to Russia and Ukraine to quickly allow experts to visit the sprawling complex to stabilize the situation and avoid a nuclear accident.
Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said in an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press that the situation is getting more perilous every day at the Zaporizhzhia plant in the southeastern city of Enerhodar, which Russian troops seized in early March, soon after their Feb. 24. invasion of Ukraine.
“Every principle of nuclear safety has been violated” at the plant, he said. “What is at stake is extremely serious and extremely grave and dangerous.”
Grossi cited many violations of the plant’s safety, adding that it is “in a place where active war is ongoing,” near Russian-controlled territory.
Moving forward to now:
Ukraine has accused Russia of once again firing rockets at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant overnight and has called for new international sanctions on Moscow for ‘nuclear terror’, after the site was also struck by missiles on Friday leading to warnings of a ‘very real risk of a nuclear disaster’.
Moscow and Kyiv have been blaming each other for the bombings of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear site in southern Ukraine, which has been under Russian control since the early days of the February 24 invasion but is still run by Ukrainian technicians. The allegations have not been confirmed by independent sources.
Ukraine’s state nuclear energy company Enerhoatom that operates the plant said the ‘Russian occupiers once again fired rockets at the site of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and the town of Enerhodar’, damaging three radiation sensors at the facility. […]
‘One… employee was hospitalised with shrapnel wounds caused by the explosion,’ it said in a statement.
The company added 174 containers with spent nuclear fuel were stored in the open air at the plant’s dry storage facility that was attacked.
‘Consequently, timely detection and response in the event of a deterioration in the radiation situation or leakage of radiation from containers of spent nuclear fuel are not yet possible,’ it said.
‘Russian nuclear terror requires a stronger response from the international community – sanctions on the Russian nuclear industry and nuclear fuel,’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wrote on Twitter.
Wait a moment, the Russians control that Power Plant?
Why would they then bombard the place with Rockets?
It doesn’t make sense at all, but I guess it fits the Narrative.
People living in that area are either of Russian origin or Russia-friendly Ukrainians.
It’s always the same question: Who has to benefit and who has to lose?
Answer: Russia has everything to lose. Thus, Zelenskyi is the culprit.
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Actually the Ukrainians are the ones bombarding the power plant, (it also fits their behavior of killing their own civilian population). The Russians are in control of the plant, makes no sense to try to destroy it. Also the Russians are asked for UN expert group to examine the plant and the proof of attacks.
Dima’s summary today gives more info.
FIRST:
Ukes hit manufacturing facility in Donetsk the contains a huge quantity of AMMONIA. People living in the densely populated area have been warned – DANGER !
At 1:34 he explains the situation at Energodar.
An informative comment:
“The shelling of the nuclear power plant can cause an explosion due to damage to auxiliary systems. The 6 containment buildings will be very strong as they are designed to contain any serious reactor issue, but the reactors and spent fuel storage pools require constant cooling water flow and damage to circulation pumps or other systems, such as offsite incoming power supplies, could cause a nuclear radiation event.
“Fukushima in Japan exploded due to cooling pump failures. If there is an event where radiation is released it could affect all of the Ukraine not just the area around the plant. The people shelling it could also die in the process…”
Nobody’s playing around.
Pisky, a village near Donetsk, turned fortress. No more civilians, just steel-fortified cement trenches and tunnel system. Used as launch site for artillery aimed at population centers.
Wanna see a TOS-1A thermobaric MLRS in action?
Wyatt – yesterday – 12:46