President cites Ukraine intelligence that Moscow has mined Zaporizhzhia nuclear station and sent away staff

  • datgooddude@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Yea, isn’t a nuclear power plant fucked, when they destroy the means to cool it down? I just think there are a lot of ways to fuck with a power plant. pls correct me if I’m wrong :)

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      1 year ago

      No, there are a lot of ways to fuck shit up, but the main point of how these things are built is to make sure that the radiation stays inside.

      A modern plant can have a full meltdown and not release anything outside the plant.

      Three Mile Island comes to mind. It was a full melt down of one of the reactors (there were several reactors in the plant) and no radiation escaped the building.

      The absolute worst case here would take actual knowledge of the plant’s systems to bomb things at the right times in the right order to create a half-assed dirty bomb.

      The more likely is another Three Mile Island style meltdown, but with added radiation hazards inside the plant itself.

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      1 year ago

      Don’t perpetuate the fear-mongering bullshit. Educate yourself. There is no reason to fear nuclear power. The entire world should be running on nuclear power right now.

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      1 year ago

      Yes, which is why Tokyo is the most rad city on earth. The mayor wanted Tokyo to evacuate but it would cause too much panic about Japan and loss of face. So people just breathed.