Originally Posted by
NutLoose
If there was ever a need for the west to intervene this is it. It also makes you think, with all the bluster, Russia sending troops and armour etc into the Kherson region, why would they need to mine it unless the fear losing it and the area.
https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/...C-1fWjzJcrAAAA
That is definitely getting into the bad sports column, and it is nuclear terrorism. Hard to argue that it isn't a terrorist action by the state of Russia.
There are 6 x VVER1000 water-water energetic reactors. They do have a containment structure before some criminal terrorist organization starts blowing up the containment or takes out the water feed. It is similar to PWRs found elsewhere and at least got rid of the PVC problem that the RBMK reactors of Chornobyl brought to light. They are water moderated so that has some level of safety, but of course, removal of the water coolant is going to go quickly to a corium outcome, and that's if Europe, the Middle East, Asia Minor, and Russia are lucky. It uses zirconium-clad fuel rods, so that is going to give a high probability of containment failure á la Fukushima, from a hydrogen explosion. Nuclear safety doesn't account for that level of terrorist involvement in damaging the reactors.
Last time Chornobyl at least had the opportunity for some mitigation, which cost the lives of.... 31 by the Soviet and Russian govt accounts, or thousands by the rest of the available sources (4k-60k). What is certain is that a major containment failure will deposit buckets of kBq worth of 137Cs and similar goodies all around the area, dependent on the wind fields for the immediate event and the continuing fallout until contained. In the middle of criminal action by Russia, that could be some time, it is apparent that Russia has zero concern for its own soldiers' health (digging foxholes around Chornobyl etc) and they certainly could care less for any other people in the area they are supposedly "liberating" or other neighboring countries. In peacetime, some mitigation can be expected, in Russia's special criminal enterprise, it would take a change of attitude to care at all about their people or others. Given the gross incompetence of the Red Team, a disaster at this NPP could easily exceed the 1986 effort by their former glorious leaders. Check windy.com and have a look at the direction of the winds at various levels.
Now, destruction and loss of containment will kill a lot of those close by, it is improbable that an evacuation would be managed by the gang that couldn't shoot straight to minimize fatalities. The same gang for the same reasons is unlikely to have the wherewithal to limit contamination. (refer to foxhole diggers above...). The spread would mean the 1MBq level would likely be extensive, and that has a long-term death rate of around 5% for that level of exposure to ionizing radiation. That will at least assure Mr Putin gets his name in print for the next 20,000 years, (Stalin, Hitler, Bubonic Plague, Putin, Ebola).
Putin owns his puppy poop: "...you break it, you bought it..."
This risks a situation that could reasonably be an attack on NATO, if a deliberate act by Mr Putin results in contamination and deaths in any NATO country.
It is well beyond time to get the fat backsides sliding off their comfortable chairs in the UN HQ and get them to do their #$%@$ job. Russia is not permitted under the rules to vote on any UNSC matter that they are a direct party to.
Countries that would be severely affected by a loss of containment:
- Romania
- Bulgaria
- Turkey (forget about visiting Istanbul or Ankara for the next 20,000 years)
- Ukraine
- Crimea (20,000 years, in almost all cases)
- Donbas (good for nothing for the next 20,000 years, so Russia, enjoy that outcome)
- Russia
- Rostov on Don,
- Novosrossiysk
- Volgograd
- Astrakhan
- Sochi
- Azerbaijan
- Georgia
- South Ossetia (thanks, Vlad!)
- Turkmenistan
- Uzbekistan
- Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgystan
- N & W China
& points east
FL180/ 500mb
F340/250mb
