Having worked in many a nuke plant I can tell you there is no way they can keep the system stable under these conditions, even without a direct hit. Ukraine nuclear plant under Russian attack - YouTube
This is a non-nuclear explosion in a power plant. It's what happens when you lose control of the boiler, and the system starts cascading wildly. This can happen simply as a result of the control room systems failing. You can't just turn them on and off like a light switch. It takes time, like several hours to bring them on-line or offline. Boiler Explosion At Engro Thar Power Plant | Blast in Engro Power Plant | Very Important Video - YouTube
It seems that have calmed the situation down but that is audacious nuclear terrorism right there. First time in world history a nuclear power plant has come under attack, unless you count Iran. I can't remember if they were operational. Time to call the bluff and take over the airspace to get more supplies in. The wind pattern from Chernobyl wasn't exactly harmless to Russia.
Amusing to the read the Twitter responses which tell this reporter he is an idiot. Now let us know -- Is Russians mining the nuclear plant with explosives to hold Europe hostage a problem? Russian troops aiming to 'mine' nuclear plant to 'blackmail the whole of Europe:' Zaporizhzhia employees https://www.foxnews.com/world/russi...lackmail-all-of-europe-zaporizhzhia-employees Staff at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Enerhodar sent a message to Ukrainian media and government authorities warning that the Russian troops that took the plant are trying to lay down explosives in order to "blackmail the whole of Europe." "They will be trying to mine the nuclear power plant and blackmail the whole of Europe," Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) employees wrote in the message early Friday morning as Russian troops attacked the plant, setting it on fire. Misha Gannytskyi, director general of the Ukrainian Independent Information Agency of News (UNIAN), provided Fox News this translation early Friday morning. (More at above url)
So the Russian Troops who were supposedly shelling a nuclear plant, just let the workers leave in peace to go to the media and tell them what they're doing. Why didn't the Russians just make a statement themselves and say "Hey, we're taking this plant hostage until you give us what we want" Very suspicious and unusual.
Proposing a conspiracy theory, is it not best to present a list of seemingly unexplainable "anomalies" and a plausible objective? Sure, there are a lot of things that don't make sense with the invasion of Ukraine and shelling of its nuclear power plants. But in the end, it is reasonable, from Putin's point of view, to take over Ukraine without sanctions being imposed. Is nuclear blackmail plausible here? It is also reasonable for the Ukrainians, from the Ukrainian's point of view, to elicit as much help as they can get. Is a false flag operation plausible here? Regardless of the "fireworks", it does not seem NATO feels compelled to lift sanctions against Russia under threat or give Ukraine additional help via restricted airspace and or troops. As the sayings go... Truth in war... or Honesty in Russia... It is interesting to note Putin did not completely take out Ukraine's air force at the beginning of the war, a fundamental opening move. Other than mostly tight cropped photos of Ukraine, there does not seem to be that much damage as far as I can tell. A burnt out armored vehicle here and there, an old wrecked helicopter, a couple of holes of varying sizes in buildings, near perfect framing of pictures involving missile strikes and a presumably unexpected explosion on a communications tower. A single bullet hole in a window with some blood on the ground to represent a successfully repelled Russian attack by armed civilians with no other casualties being mentioned. Russia with 40 miles of military hardware seemingly doing relatively little. All weird, certainly. Motivation(s) unclear. However, Global sanctions against Russia seem to have whatever game he (they) might be playing, covered. Various intelligence agencies of the major powers should know exactly what's going on in Ukraine through satellite imagery and base decisions accordingly. Games can be fun until someone gets hurt.