It seems to have been somewhere in Eastern Europe, could be Ukraine. :hmmm:

Well, we know they have a history of doing that.....

*ducks*

its not just Ukraine its more to do with the reactor specifically RBMK fitted into plants like chernobyl there have been many across former soviet republics 161 accidents to date across the world

Kyshtem 1957 was one of the worst pre 3 mile island and chernobyl

however there have been incidents in other plants of the same design as chernobyl and they still operate today Tomsk 7 also had an accident

As for Chernobyl i have been there and seen it for myself and Chernobyl has been shut down since 2000

It is not about RBMKs specifically, it is about the state of the Ukrainian nuclear power generation in general. The powerplants themselves are fairly low on resources (some of that shortage comes from the general economic situation in the country, some from equipment and supplies being "donated" to the armed organisations in the country) and there are several potentially dangerous projects underway (such as the attempt to switch from Russian made fuel assemblies to American mades ones).

I'm guessing that the Dem press is hoping that Trump will overreact to it. To them the risk of war is secondary to making the administration look bad.

Not buying that.

Ok then why is it suddenly front page worthy news when every time it's happened before it wasn't?

Because anything Russian is a hot topic now. I'm not buying the war part. If Trump makes national security decisions based on media reports, which he labels fake news anyway, instead of national security advisers, oh wait he doesn't have any because nobody wants the job and he's in open conflict with the intelligence services. Sure that's the media's fault and not some intrinsic fault in is character because it's never his fault on anything. The man is a charlatan.

There is a growing feeling of agreement on that opinion here in the UK as far as I can ascertain :yep:

Well, he's on record saying we should blow it out of the water....

Actually no he didn't. You could only get that impression if you cherry pick the quote.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/u...-usa.html?_r=0

See?, pretty much the exact opposite.

It wasn't so much his critics that was aimed at, but the whole of America, note he says 'everyone in this country's', not 'all my critics would say', because let's face it, if Trump shot or didn't shoot, his most critical critics would hate it anyway. No, this was what would make him more popular politically because of what he deems to be the anti-Russian sentiment amongst the American populace which he considers himself to be rallying against.

Shooting a ship regardless of its purpose in international waters is an act of war, do you not thing that Russia would want retribution ? what about the Norwegian Marajata that sails regularly off the northern coast of Russia just a mile beyond the 12nm limit he is talking about a vessel that is sat 30 miles out.

Maybe Trump can push its territorial waters to the mid-atlantic again, to provoke an incident.. Momp anyone?

So Trump has said he wouldn't shoot at the stupid Russian ship yet you guys just continue talking like he said the exact opposite.

What I can't figure out is if you actually believe it.