"Cooling systems at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant caught fire after being shelled by Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye region, stated Governor Balitsky.
Currently, all six reactors at the plant are in cold shutdown, with no threat of a steam explosion or other consequences. The radiation levels around the plant are normal.
Emergency services are working at the scene of the fire to extinguish the hotspots. The situation is fully under control and poses no threat to the plant or the residents, clarified the head of the region."
Energy warfare makes sense. Critical infrastructure. Even if you can bypass it for military or governmental purposes with generators or redundant sources, it makes the affected people irritable and angry which causes a rise in dissent within affected groups.
Except nuclear plants have to be kept cool. Even with the multiple generators, and multiple safety generators, and battery banks, if the multiple lines bringing power in from outside sources are blown up the plant cooling can only last as long as their diesel and battery banks last. Most people have no idea that nuclear plants rely on multiple external power sources to make sure cooling works. They can use their own power while everything is normal, but when the plant has issues they absolutely need external power or things eventually turn very very bad.
If Russia or Ukraine wants to play with shutting down a nuclear power plant it will not end well. They will become a complete outcast in the world.
"Cooling systems at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant caught fire after being shelled by Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye region, stated Governor Balitsky.
Currently, all six reactors at the plant are in cold shutdown, with no threat of a steam explosion or other consequences. The radiation levels around the plant are normal.
Emergency services are working at the scene of the fire to extinguish the hotspots. The situation is fully under control and poses no threat to the plant or the residents, clarified the head of the region."
The plant no work for a while? Notice the tit for tat siege over energy?
Energy warfare makes sense. Critical infrastructure. Even if you can bypass it for military or governmental purposes with generators or redundant sources, it makes the affected people irritable and angry which causes a rise in dissent within affected groups.
Except nuclear plants have to be kept cool. Even with the multiple generators, and multiple safety generators, and battery banks, if the multiple lines bringing power in from outside sources are blown up the plant cooling can only last as long as their diesel and battery banks last. Most people have no idea that nuclear plants rely on multiple external power sources to make sure cooling works. They can use their own power while everything is normal, but when the plant has issues they absolutely need external power or things eventually turn very very bad.
If Russia or Ukraine wants to play with shutting down a nuclear power plant it will not end well. They will become a complete outcast in the world.