You do sort of wonder if the Poles jump in if this nuke plant gets messed up. Or does the NATO agreement prevent that?
Correct. It's a mutual defense treaty, so a "preemptive" attack from Poland presumably wouldn't be covered.
if Poland did get involved they’d probably say russia entered their airspace or something to justify it
Zaporizhzhia has containment buildings, so it's a lot better off already than Chernobyl. Just because a building is on fire doesn't necessarily mean that it's unsafe, depends on the building. But fire is never good around a nuclear plant.
Once you realize what you are looking at it’s clearer. Open in YouTube and full screen road down the middle has trucks firing towards white building on right of screen. The bright spot is a fire you’ll see tracer rounds
They’re just running the Aleppo playbook again. Just bomb the shit out of civilians until there’s no one left to fight.
I feel like it has to attract heavy attention, plant is on a river that feeds into the Black Sea. I don’t think Turkey/Romania/Bulgaria would be jazzed about it being fed by a nuclear river.
Fires at nuke plants are 99% of the time due to electrical. A sister plant literally had Appendix R created because of it. The ole candle test decided to run through uninsulated and unprotected cables. Got to imagine this plant was shutdown days ago. I would be utterly shocked if they were still online with the Russians knocking on the door. I understand the need for power generation to the country but at some point you gotta maintain nuclear safety.
yeah, plus firefighters have their choice of elephant's foot nuking them or getting sniped by Russians.
Yes, I know. But figuratively speaking. This is a much newer reactor design. I remember the Chernobyl type was super unsafe compared to Western ones, right?
Yeah inactive meaning shutdown. Fuel still in the core. It’s a 6 unit PWR cooled by light water. It’s a 4 loop plant a lot like our Westinghouse design. They have emergency core cooling systems and automatic controls with a lot of passive safety. I believe any “release” would be fairly mild. The 10 mile zone would see the brunt. Their containment structure should be capable of withstanding some pretty beefy missiles.
Yes. There was no containment structure and core cooling was unavailable during their testing. It was the antithesis of what is going on now.
I’m not sure about security staffing at their plants but ours are like mini fortresses. It’s all passive. After 9/11, we drew up plans for SAM sites inside our protected area. I saw a few of the layout drawings. Never came to fruition, but still pretty wild.
The guy shot a hand gun at the President but jokes on him the president was behind some bullet proof glass!
they're not going to cause another Chernobyl with this, they're taking it offline because of what it means to Ukraine's grid. they'd kill more people bombing them directly than if they were trying to cause a meltdown (which is not easy whatsoever).