Posted on 03/12/2022 11:14:34 PM PST by blueplum
Russian energy officials have claimed control of the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Station, Ukraine's largest nuclear power plant, according to Ukrainian officials.
Energy officials from Rosatom, the Russian state atomic energy corporation, arrived in Zaporizhzhya on Friday and said the plant is now part of their company....
...The International Atomic Energy Agency said that two of the four high voltage offsite power lines at the Zaporizhzhia plant have been damaged...Ukrainian technicians have begun to repair the damaged power lines at the plant, Insider reported on Saturday.
The Russian military has also gotten dangerously close to the nuclear plant in Yuzhnoukrainsk...
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
I'll reserve any further opinion.
Ze-clown is looking to destroy his country and the whole world to show how woke he is. It makes perfect sense for Russia to take control over everything hazardous.
Smart move by the Russkies keeping the lights on. Ukrainian sabotage would erode support from a weary public.
One of the reasons the Iraqi insurgency was less effective in the long run, was ordinary people became increasingly pissed about transmission lines being trashed by insurgents
I was wondering what that odd salient in Mykolaiv Oblast was about...
No doubt the Russians studied the U.S approach to power plants in GW2
Yes....and there’s too many foreign forces running around on their own who could create an accident just to esculate this conflict - too many want to see a war between US and Russia.
Interesting to note, however, that Biden’s propaganda machine had all the answers.
All these thieveing scumbags need headshots to teach them the error of their ways.
The energy sources are a pretty good leveraging chip especially once we get into fall.
Does this plant normally supply any energy to Russia?
No one....wants a blow out.
See link above Make sure you scroll down to Chernobyl
Scroll down to Chernobyl today
I guess the 48 hours of fuel to meltdown can be put in the Fake News category, along with about everything else reported in the West (starting with lie that Ukraine is an innocent victim, just minding its own business).
How much is Hunter making on the deal?
Not to Russia.
“The plant generates 40-42 billion kWh that accounts for one fifth of the average annual electricity production in Ukraine and for almost 47% of electricity generated at Ukrainian NPPs.”
https://www.uatom.org/en/general-information/zaporizhzhya-npp
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