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Originally Posted by mapuc
If and when it is clear that Russia has plantet explosive on the roof of these 6 reactors and inside and they are going to blow it up, then I ask you-Will NATO intervene ?
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Think this is one of Putin's power play with the West if he blows up the ZNPP and the West does nothing, it opens the path for Putin to use nuclear weapons think that is his plan. Do not know he will do it, hope the pressure of other countries will prevent that.
The six reactors at ZNPP are not at all like the Chernobyl reactor and cannot have the same kind of accident. Chernobyl had a graphite moderator, and the building it was in was not the heavily reinforced concrete of the reactors at ZNPP. The ZNPP reactors have hard oxide fuel encased in metal, and are inside a stainless steel vessel. Chernobyl had no such vessel. The Post mentions the possibliity of a Fukushima-type accident. The reactors at Fukushima operated right up until the earthquake. The ZNPP reactors have been mostly shut down for months. That means that the Fukushima reactors were much hotter, both thermally and radiologically, than the ZNPP reactors are now. Additionally, all control was lost at Fukushima. There are measures the ZNPP operators can take to mitigate such an accident. The current understanding is that the Fukushima release was less dangerous than was believed at the time. The evacuation turned out to be more dangerous. Any or all of the ZNPP reactors could be damaged so that they would need extensive repairs or could become useless without a radiation release. There is a spent fuel pond which is less protected, but it would take expert explosive rigging to disperse the fuel rods, and they would likely disperse in chunks in the immediate vicinity of the plant, not in a cloud. It’s harder to pulverize things with explosives than might appear from movies.
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