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Nuclear Reactor Malfunction Leaves Millions of Russians Without Power
Newsweek ^ | 7/17/2024 | Isabel van Brugen

Posted on 07/17/2024 5:00:39 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

Millions of Russians in the south of the country were left without electricity on Tuesday after a power unit at the Rostov nuclear power plant was shut down due to a malfunction.

The Rostov nuclear power plant supplies power to the Russia's entire Southern Federal District, and rolling power outages affected residents of Russia's Krasnodar Territory, Rostov region, Sevastopol, and Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula illegally annexed by President Vladimir Putin from Ukraine in 2014.

Russia's state-owned energy group Rosatom said one of the nuclear power plant's four power units was shut down due to a malfunction of the turbine generator.

"The reasons are being investigated; the radiation background is normal," a Rosatom representative told Reuters on Tuesday.

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Russia was also hit by widespread power outages earlier this month after a Ukrainian drone barrage struck the country's Kursk, Belgorod, and Bryansk regions.

Kyiv's drone attacks left 90 percent of the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, without electricity and water, Telegram channel Mash, which says it is linked to Russia's security services, reported on July 1.

Ukraine's Energy Ministry said at the time that about 90 percent of the Belgorod region, including the cities of Belgorod and Stary Oskol, was without electricity.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


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To: marcusmaximus
Your beloved Putin is scared of President Trump.

Tell your Biden to tell your Elensky to withdraw what's left of the Ucrazian army from the future Russian Federation oblasts of Kharkov, Nikolaev and Odessa.


21 posted on 07/17/2024 6:00:14 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: marcusmaximus

Finally, Californians can laugh at somebody else.


22 posted on 07/17/2024 6:04:19 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: kiryandil

Your beloved Putin is scared of President Trump. And Kremlin whining this morning about Haley saying the same thing last night. Lol!


23 posted on 07/17/2024 6:08:38 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Trump and Vance are going to pull your money, Maxi. Does give you a warm feeling for them?


24 posted on 07/17/2024 6:11:51 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: marcusmaximus
Your beloved Putin is scared of President Trump. And Kremlin whining this morning about Haley saying the same thing last night. Lol!

"Panic In Kiev As Ukraine Trolling By marcus Collapses!"

Kahlua Kuleba dispatched to Kharkov underground bunker complex to direct the fresh reserve troops of General Steiner!
25 posted on 07/17/2024 6:12:27 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: marcusmaximus

According to Russia, the reactor itself is fine, the turbine failed.

I do wonder why they shut down one reactor, and aren’t supplying power with the other three, even if only on a rotating blackout basis.

Maybe Rosatom isn’t quite being forthcoming?

Naaahhh...


26 posted on 07/17/2024 6:12:38 AM PDT by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: BobL

Because it was competently executed?


27 posted on 07/17/2024 6:12:56 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: marcusmaximus

28 posted on 07/17/2024 6:13:10 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: kiryandil

Wow


29 posted on 07/17/2024 6:14:13 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Mr. Lucky

“Because it was competently executed?”

Naa, because the Neocons have a history of shelling nukes in Ukraine.


30 posted on 07/17/2024 6:15:08 AM PDT by BobL
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To: kiryandil

...or a frying pan!


31 posted on 07/17/2024 6:16:12 AM PDT by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Meanwhile a large section of Ukraine has been without power for over 24 hours....


32 posted on 07/17/2024 6:17:35 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: Karl Spooner

The Putinists are going to be very disappointed when they see that Trump/Vance won’t surrender Ukraine to Putin and his inbred Mongol invaders next year.


33 posted on 07/17/2024 6:17:55 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Karl Spooner; BobL; aMorePerfectUnion

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/07/17/power-restored-at-russian-nuclear-plant-after-widespread-outages-a85737

Another marcus-Isabel van Poutin clown car “news” drill fizzles out...


34 posted on 07/17/2024 6:23:00 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: Jumper

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/07/17/power-restored-at-russian-nuclear-plant-after-widespread-outages-a85737


35 posted on 07/17/2024 6:23:20 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: marcusmaximus
The Putinists are going to be very disappointed when they see that Trump/Vance won’t surrender Ukraine to Putin and his inbred Mongol invaders next year.

"marcusclimaximus Humiliated As Attempt To Stiffen Flaccid Ukrainian Front Line In Kharkov Takes 3 Days, Ends In Failure!"

Even a helping hand from NewsWeak fiction writer Isabel van Poutin failed, and rubbed marcus the wrong way, in the end.
36 posted on 07/17/2024 6:24:57 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: marcusmaximus

According to a podcast yesterday that whole region is having an awful heatwave. As if spilling guts wasn’t bad enough.

Temps reported as high as 44C or 111 degrees F.


37 posted on 07/17/2024 6:25:15 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: kiryandil

He obviously has an assignment to track Russian news sites. But you notice he still hasn’t posted anything regarding the Russian reaction to the shooting. I wonder why? Perhaps the Russians reacted with a lot of class, unlike the party that controls him. That would be my guess.


38 posted on 07/17/2024 6:25:22 AM PDT by BobL
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To: BobL
But you notice he still hasn’t posted anything regarding the Russian reaction to the shooting. I wonder why? Perhaps the Russians reacted with a lot of class, unlike the party that controls him. That would be my guess.

Yes, you have a very good observation here.

39 posted on 07/17/2024 6:30:32 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: marcusmaximus
Ukraine is not ours to surrender, but no money and military weapons makes it a forgone conclusion.

You are toast, Maxi. Have a nice election countdown.

">Donald Trump’s selection of arch-isolationist JD Vance as his running mate has cemented Europe’s fears that a second Trump term would drastically reduce transatlantic security ties, increase tariffs and sever critical US support for Ukraine.

Vance has dismissed US security guarantees as a crutch that has allowed Europe “to ignore its own security” and argued that US aid for Ukraine is unnecessary."

https://www.ft.com/content/563c5005-c099-445f-b0f1-4077b8612de4

40 posted on 07/17/2024 6:31:12 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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