The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine is the largest nuclear facility in Europe. Photo by Russian Emergencies Ministry/EPA-EFE
Posted on 08/12/2022 6:57:18 AM PDT by dennisw
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-- Russian attacks on Friday again included targets near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine, pressing concerns about the security of the facility and eliciting a warning from the top U.N. nuclear watchdog.
For days this week, experts and Ukrainian officials have expressed a deep concern about fighting around the plant, which is the largest nuclear power facility in Europe. They worry that a nuclear catastrophe could result if it's hit, accidentally or intentionally.
Ukrainian officials said that Russian rockets hit in Nikopol on Friday, which is located just across the Dnipro River from the Zaporizhzhia plant. Officials worry that Moscow, which captured the plant many weeks ago, will continue to use the facility as a shield -- knowing that it can launch attacks against Ukrainian positions without fear of retaliatory fire.
On Thursday, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi issued a dire warning.
"Any military action jeopardizing nuclear safety, nuclear security, must stop immediately," he said in an address to the United Nations Security Council on Thursday.
"These military actions near to such a large nuclear facility could lead to very serious consequences."
Grossi said at the meeting that shelling late last week at the Zaporizhzhia plant set off several explosions near the electrical switchboard and caused a power shutdown. One reactor unit was disconnected from the electrical grid, he said, triggering its emergency protection system and setting generators into operation to ensure power supply. He also said there was shelling at a nitrogen oxygen station.
Grossi emphasized that there is no "immediate" threat at the plant, but cautioned that the status could change at any time.
"This is a serious hour, a grave hour, and the IAEA must be allowed to conduct its mission in Zaporizhzhia as soon as possible."
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The UN sent them a strongly-worded letter.
It’s going in Russia’s permanent file.
Roooskie vodka swilling stupidity at its finest! Roooski barbarians go home and (self) harm yourself, like most good psychos do. Instead of harming Ukraine. Slava Ukraini and F Vlad.
Woo hoo, Serious warnings! What’s next, strongly worded letters? Then what, stumpy feet, holding their breath? That’ll show them.......
Slobber Ukraini
Yup, Russia convenes a meeting of the UNSC, attended by the IAEA,
then on the same day shells the NPP they occupied and have operated since March ( with Ukrainian and Russian techs) because they want to destroy power supply and risk contamination of the region they occupy….plus Crimea which is in the wind path,
Makes sense in Western propaganda-land.
“Russian keeps up attacks near Ukraine nuclear plant”
If Russia wants to destroy the plant cause a meltdown, they don’t need to shell it. It’s much more effective to simply light off a ton of explosives from inside one of the domes.
...or shut off the cooling.
“Russian rockets hit in Nikopol on Friday”
Good. Because that is where the Uke shells at the NPP are being fired from
Слава Україні! And F Vlad! слава Україні!
It fits perfectly into Russian strategy to disable a NPP, destroy power supply to a region that is going to vote to join Russia on 11 Sep, and to potentially contaminate large areas that they currently occupy to protect ethnic and cultural Russian speakers
Perfect strategic sense
The spins are just fantastic. Nicopol is where the shelling of the station (by Ukrainians) came from. It is not “near” the station.
Insiders in the Ukrainian government posted yesterday, that the MI6 said them that the Russians are going to attack the source of fire.
https://t.me/rezident_ua/13596
What do the Russians think this is....Three Mile Island?
(disconnected from the electrical grid)
Almost word-for-word from The China Syndrome 🤔
Revelation 8:10-11
King James Version
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
Some claimed this verse in relation to Chernobyl but the world isn’t that far into the Book of Revelation.
Yet.
We are living in the time of Laodicea again, though.
Then you will get a tit for tat where Ukraine will figure out a way to sabotage a Russian nuclear power plant, so it blows to release radioactive elements. Might even be via a missile or three at the Russian nuke plants control rooms. Two can play this very nasty game. You should tell your barbaric heroes to cut way down on the vodka and liquor they have been raiding from Ukrainian homes.
...and the SCARIEST PART is the Flat-Out lying that the media is getting away with. If Ukraine does manage to cause a meltdown there, the Western Media will need to be ‘dealt with’.
“You should tell your barbaric heroes to cut way down on the vodka and liquor they have been raiding from Ukrainian homes.”
You guys supporting the meltdown better hope the winds blow east if you’re successful, because your ‘sophisticated’ European buddies will have to find a new continent to live on.
August 8th -—— https://tinyurl.com/yvpt6ymn
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KYIV (Reuters) - Kyiv and Moscow traded blame on Monday for the weekend shelling of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex amid international alarm that their battle for control of the plant could trigger catastrophe.
Calling any attack on a nuclear plant “suicidal”, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres demanded U.N. nuclear inspectors be given access to Zaporizhzhia, the largest complex of its kind in Europe.
Russia’s invading forces seized the southern Ukrainian region containing Zaporizhzhia in March, when the site was struck without damage to its reactors. The area, including the city of Kherson, is now the target of a Ukrainian counter-offensive.
Ukraine appealed for the area around the complex to be demilitarised and for the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, to be let in. Russia said it too favoured an IAEA visit, which it accused Ukraine of blocking while trying to “take Europe hostage” by shelling the plant.
Ukraine blamed Russia for weekend attacks around the complex, which is still being run by Ukrainian technicians. It said three radiation sensors were damaged and two workers injured by shrapnel.
As of Monday morning, the plant appeared to still be running, said Petro Kotin, head of Ukraine’s state nuclear power company Energoatom. He said 500 Russian soldiers and 50 pieces of heavy machinery, including tanks, trucks and armoured infantry vehicles were at the site. [L1N2ZK0IC]
The Ukrainian staff at the plant had nowhere to shelter, he added.
Kotin called for peacekeepers to run the Zaporizhzhia site, flagging the risk of shells hitting its six containers of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel. In an evening video shared online, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for new Western sanctions on Russia’s nuclear industry “for creating the threat of a nuclear disaster.”
Dr Mark Wenman, a nuclear expert at Imperial College London, played down the risk of a major incident, saying the Zaporizhzhia reactors were relatively robust and the spent fuel well protected.
“Although it may seem worrying, and any fighting on a nuclear site would be illegal ...the likelihood of a serious nuclear release is still small,” he said in a statement.
WORKING UNDER ‘RUSSIAN GUNS’
Yevhenii Tsymbaliuk, Ukraine’s ambassador to the IAEA, said Zaporizhzhia staff were “working under the barrels of Russian guns”.
Meanwhile, Russia’s defence ministry said Ukrainian attacks had damaged power lines servicing the plant and forced it to reduce output by two of its six reactors to “prevent disruption”.
The U.N.’s Guterres said IAEA personnel needed access to “create conditions for stabilisation”.
“Any attack (on) a nuclear plant is a suicidal thing,” he told a news conference in Japan, where he attended the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony on Saturday to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bombing.
The world’s worst civil nuclear disaster occurred in 1986 when a reactor at the Chornobyl complex in northwest Ukraine exploded. Soon after this year’s Feb. 24 invasion, Russian troops occupied that site, withdrawing in late March.
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GRAIN EXPORTS PICK UP ——— (GREAT NEWS!!!)
Adding weight to a rare diplomatic success since the war began, a deal to unblock Ukraine’s food exports and ease global shortages gathered pace as two grain ships carrying almost 59,000 tonnes of corn and soybeans sailed out of Ukrainian Black Sea ports.
That raised the total to 12 since the first vessel left a week ago.
The July 22 grain export pact, brokered by Turkey and the United Nations, was further underpinned as the parties issued procedures for merchant ships carrying Ukrainian grain, including a 10-nautical-mile military exclusion zone, according to a document seen by Reuters.
Before the invasion, Russia and Ukraine together accounted for nearly a third of global wheat exports.
“because your ‘sophisticated’ European buddies “
Death to those cosmopolitans right?
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