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Posted on 08/07/2022 8:46:40 AM PDT by McGruff
Ukraine accused Russian forces on Sunday of firing rockets that landed on the grounds of a nuclear power plant that Russia has seized in the south of the country, further raising the risk of an accident at a complex where the United Nations’ nuclear agency has said that the principles of nuclear safety have been violated. A pro-Russian regional official blamed Ukrainian forces for the attack.
The rockets fired Saturday evening landed near a dry spent fuel storage facility, where 174 casks are stored, each containing 24 assemblies of spent nuclear fuel, according to Enerhoatom, Ukraine’s nuclear energy company. One person was wounded by shrapnel and many windows were damaged.
“Apparently, they aimed specifically at the casks with spent fuel, which are stored in the open near the site of shelling,” the company said in a post on the Telegram social messaging app.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
U.S.-Provided HIMARS Effective in Ukraine
Ukraine and Russia blame each other.
Do they have a BLM group there?
Sea Eye Yay?
What are the odds Russia shelled its own position?
Hummm, the Pre Maidan Coup Ukraine government didn't seem to have so much trouble transitioning away from Nuclear dangers.
They got rid of, and de-milled all those aging Nukes and improved the sealing and containment of Chernobyl's Soviet era accident.
But Regime Change was such a good idea ...
I’ll wait for the coherent explanation as to why EITHER side in this war actually wants to start a nuclear accident.
That said - Russia’s the only side that turned the dial way past Full Retard by doing an assault on Chernobyl with (a) not single a person with nuclear safety expertise in the team, and (b) a bunch of grunts so ignorant of what Chernobyl was, they ignored a few hundred safety notices and dug trenches inside the most nuclear contaminated place on earth.
I really wouldn’t put it past the Russians to do something equally stupid somewhere else. Ukes and Belorussians know what a nuclear accident on their doorstep looks like and literally anybody who’s ever had a teenage education in Ukraine will know what happened in and around Pripyat.
No matter how badly they would want to mess things up for the Russians, it’s extremely unlikely that they’d risk another incident like that.
It’s the Russians - especially if those forces include troops from the eastern provinces of Russia - who have absolutely no idea what could happen. It’s even possible that they’ve got orders not to screw with nukes but are under so much pressure to hold the Ukes back that they’ve decided it really isn’t as important as, say, firing rockets to the other side of the river.
the impact crater should tell which way it came from... no?
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Welp, if the Ukrainians are using HIMARs, there is no worries; they could not even destroy a bridge and its supporting pylons.......
Regardless of who fired those rounds, this ultimately is Russia's fault.
HIMARs, there is no worries; they could not even destroy a bridge and its supporting pylons.......
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They are not designed to destroy hardened structures like bridges - that’s why they make various combinations of air-dropped 2,000 lbers.
Strange how the Russian equivalent of the HIMARs, the Tornado-S could do such. Like most anything else in the US and Western European arsenals, let’s build lots of high-priced worthless sh*t.
“What are the odds Russia shelled its own position?”
Pretty good. They just shot down one of their own aircraft.
“They got rid of, and de-milled all those aging Nukes and improved the sealing and containment of Chernobyl’s Soviet era accident.”
Until idiot Russian troops showed up on the site and started digging trenches in the contaminated soil. Real bright.
Any reason that Russia would want a huge nuclear spill in an area they plan on occupying for the indefinite future?
I’m at a loss...
Why do you think it was an accident?
“Apparently, they aimed specifically at the casks with spent fuel, which are stored in the open near the site of shelling,” the company said...
Then again, it is unwise to provoke someone unless you can win the fight.
Too bad, ... stuff gets broke in War, something you didn’t count on.
This issue is going to tear the GOP apart, and maybe it should. No way in hell I'd vote for any of those siding with Russia. Just an unbridgeable philosophical gulf.
I'd rather sit home and throw metaphorical tomatoes at both sides than vote for any Russian apologist.
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