mtf.... Edit: Europe's largest nuclear power plant on fire after Russian attack, says local mayor Reuters March 3, 20227:25 PM ESTLast Updated 11 min ago BORODYANKA/LVIV, Ukraine, March 4 (Reuters) - The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, the largest of its kind in Europe, was on fire early on Friday after an attack by Russian troops, the mayor of the nearby town of Energodar said. There has been fierce fighting between local forces and Russian troops, Dmytro Orlov said in an online post, adding that there had been casualties without giving details. Earlier, Ukrainian authorities reported Russian troops were stepping up efforts to seize the plant and had entered the town with tanks. "As a result of continuous enemy shelling of buildings and units of the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is on fire," Orlov said on his Telegram channel, citing what he called a threat to world security. He did not give derails. Reuters could not immediately verify the information.
Live updates: Russian troops shelling nuclear power station https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2022/03/03/live-updates-top-russian-general-killed-in-ukraine/ ENERHODAR, Ukraine — Russian troops are shelling Europe’s largest nuclear power station in Ukraine. “We demand that they stop the heavy weapons fire,” Andriy Tuz, spokesperson for the plant in Enerhodar, said in a video posted on Telegram. “There is a real threat of nuclear danger in the biggest atomic energy station in Europe.” The plant accounts for about one quarter of Ukraine’s power generation. The fighting at Enerhodar, a city on the Dnieper River that accounts for one-quarter of the country’s power generation, came as another round of talks between the two sides yielded a tentative agreement to set up safe corridors inside Ukraine to evacuate citizens and deliver humanitarian aid. The mayor of Enerhodar said Ukrainian forces were battling Russian troops on the city’s outskirts. Video showed flames and black smoke rising above the city of more than 50,000, with people streaming past wrecked cars, just a day after the U.N. atomic watchdog agency expressed grave concern that the fighting could cause accidental damage to Ukraine’s 15 nuclear reactors.
Built in 1985, band-aid put on in 2017, this thing won't withstand shelling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporizhzhia_Nuclear_Power_Plant
Now elevated radiation levels are being detected outside the plant. ES futures just dropped 78 points.
One nuclear plant down, five to go. a potential six Chernobyls? Wheeeee! Anybody know some radioactive Russian jokes?
If true, winds aloft will carry this to Turkey it appears. https://www.windfinder.com/#5/44.2137/39.4629
I just visited Ukraine's latest tourist attraction, Chernobyl. I give it four thumbs up! Shortly after the Chernobyl incident... ...China, America, and Germany came too help with their state of the art cleanup robots, and sent them out to show them off to each other. The Chinese robot broke down even before it could reach the cleanup site. The Americans cheered as their robot performed its task in the highly irradiated cleanup zone, but it too broke down in only 8 minutes. The German robot with its superior german engineering managed to perform its task for a full 20 minutes before finally succumbing to the immense heat and radiation. But all this time, the Russian robot was hard at work, and the engineers and scientists of all the other nations watched in awe as the Russian robot continued to send back signals for another full hour. They asked the soviet officer stationed there, “How is your robot still active after all this time?” The soviet officer looked at them, then took a glance at the clock, and shouted in to the megaphone, “Private Dimitri! Your shift is over! Come out for a smoke.” What do you call a kid from chernobyl with a broken leg a glow stick Would it have been possible to avoid the disaster of Chernobyl? In theory yes, but those damn Swedes couldn't keep their mouth shut.
Anything Nuclear is bad. Very bad. Wonder when Putin is going to get a few servings of polonium tea, which is nuclear, which is bad.