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| Nuclear disaster as a last chance: Kyiv has one week left |
| 2023-07-05 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Sergey Savchuk [RIA] In recent days, the Ukrainian media and the Western media machine that supports them have been whipping up hysterics around the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, where Russia is allegedly going to make a disaster. According to Kyiv, the Russian military drove trucks filled with explosives to the territory of the station, allegedly with the aim of their subsequent undermining and creating a "second Chernobyl" of a regional scale. This situation is an absolute copy of the events of a month ago, when Kyiv, having previously arranged a universal hysteria, blew up the dam of the Kakhovka reservoir. This led to the flooding of vast territories downstream of the Dnieper and caused, as all sources without exception write, irreparable damage to the ecosystem within the boundaries of the channel of the main river of Ukraine. The mouthpieces of Russophobic propaganda then raced to accuse Moscow of all sins, however, Ukrainian and Western publications a year ago very quickly surfaced, in which they happily savored the missile strikes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the locks and training to launch drone river fire-ships. All these records were promptly cleaned up, but this did not change the overall picture. Today, even the High Command of Ukraine admits that the widely publicized counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has actually run into the defense in depth of the Russian army and is unsuccessfully knocking on it with its forehead, losing people and expensive Western armored vehicles. To compensate for the losses, total mobilization has already been announced in four regions, and so that the population does not grumble and Western sponsors do not stop the supply of weapons, the second act of this monstrous in its unprincipled production was invented and is being implemented right before our eyes. Even the naked eye can see the same handwriting. At the time of the explosion, the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station was under the control of Russia, and its only working hydroelectric unit was serviced by RusHydro specialists . At ZNPP, all reactors are in cold shutdown mode, their routine maintenance is provided by Rosatom employees. A serviceable reservoir ensured an uninterrupted supply of water to the Crimea, prevented the Russian Armed Forces positions on the left bank from being flooded, Kakhovka water guaranteed a successful agricultural season in new Russian regions. But most importantly, Dnieper water is critically important for the operation of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, where it is used as a coolant. After the dam was blown up, but the shallowing of the channel did not bring any tangible dividends to the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the front, the invisible puppeteers decided to raise the stakes to the skies. In addition, by pure chance, in a week, another NATO summit will be held in Vilnius , where President Zelensky will be able to scare Europe with a nuclear catastrophe, extorting new tanks and planes. As in the case of the explosion of the hydroelectric power station, for Russia, if there was a major accident at the Zaporizhzhya NPP, what happened will bring many problems, but the Ukrainian side, under the mute of radioactive contamination, will be able to demand the immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory of the whole region and at least the introduction of an international peacekeeping contingent there. But better, of course, are the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which for more than a year have been unsuccessfully trying to disembark from boats in the station area and arrange some kind of dirty trick. If we consider the practical likelihood of a threat, then it should be noted that the danger really exists. In principle, the Ukrainian side cannot damage the reactors themselves, since it does not have the necessary power to break through the building of the power unit, the so-called containment. The Soviet GOSTs for the construction of nuclear power plants, which are still used in modern Russia, guarantee that even if a passenger airliner crashes into the dome of the building, this will definitely not damage the reactor. Similarly, you don't have to worry about the pool where containers with spent nuclear fuel are stored in the water. At ZNPP they are located inside the containment area and therefore are also protected from external physical influences. But all these precautions are designed for peacetime, and therefore there are vulnerabilities. The key is the Dnieper water. In VVER-1000 reactors, water is used in a closed cycle, but it still has to be periodically changed, and if Ukraine, using, say, the Soviet Tochka-U or Western Storm Shadow missiles, can destroy the dam of the cooling pond, this could lead to unforeseen consequences. It is impossible to cause a chain reaction and subsequent explosion in a cold shutdown reactor, but in the event of a lack of water in the core, the temperature will begin to rise. Here it is necessary to make a remark that, according to the same Soviet GOSTs, nuclear power plants should have at least three sources of water, and there is hope that Zaporozhye nuclear scientists, with the support of our military engineers, have provided a reserve of coolant from artesian sources. The most vulnerable part of the plant, without a doubt, remains the dry SNF storage facility, located just under the open sky. Shipping containers, of course, have a fair margin of safety, but how much they are able to withstand a direct missile strike is not an idle question. To understand who is really preparing a provocation at a non-functioning plant, we add that yesterday the commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny suddenly visited the Rivne nuclear power plant and, judging by the published videos, he was most interested in the reactor protection systems and how widely the infection could spread. To the sadness of the Western operetta media, the head of the IAEA destroyed the carefully whipped up hysteria on the air of the French television channel France 24 . Rafael Grossi stated that the monitoring commission permanently located at the ZNPP did not see a single vehicle with explosives or any preparations for an explosion. One can only hope that the West has not yet sunk into irreversible insanity, in which warmongers in Ukraine will push Kyiv towards a new man-made Chernobyl. |
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