We have to worry about various natural disasters. We never thought about war. I don't see how we can make nuclear safe when you consider that. Has the fat lady sung?
And what if it doesn't so choose. Putin is fucking scary right now, scary because he doesn't seem to be in his right mind. He just said that the economic sanctions are akin to a declaration of war by the west. Putin just basically said we are at war with him even when we held back from stepping in in Ukraine.
So, Putin just said we declared war. This is not a man I want in charge of nuclear weapons or nuclear power stations in war zones.
While all 4 RBMK's have been shut down since the early 2000's, there is still 20+ years of spent fuel on the site, in large spent fuel ponds. That water needs to be processed, cleaned, and cooled. They were also doing lots of fuel handling work, getting it in a form suitable for long term dry storage (ISF-1 and ISF-2). I've taken the workers train from Slavutych into the Chernobyl exclusion zone a few times; three trains depart each morning, each with about 500 people on board. There's a reasonable amount of
The three other reactors were all shut down by 2000. The cooling pumps were shut down in 2013. No cooling pumps means they *definitely* aren't running the reactors.
And what if it doesn't so choose. Putin is fucking scary right now, scary because he doesn't seem to be in his right mind. He just said that the economic sanctions are akin to a declaration of war by the west. Putin just basically said we are at war with him even when we held back from stepping in in Ukraine.
So, Putin just said we declared war. This is not a man I want in charge of nuclear weapons or nuclear power stations in war zones.
Do I need to remind anyone that this man can inci
Selensky stupidly thought out loud about getting nuclear weapons at the Munich Security Conference a couple weeks ago.
If anything, Russians are capturing nuclear power plants to prevent Ukraine from using the stuff.
They were also doing lots of fuel handling work, getting it in a form suitable for long term dry storage (ISF-1 and ISF-2).
I've taken the workers train from Slavutych into the Chernobyl exclusion zone a few times; three trains depart each morning, each with about 500 people on board. There's a reasonable amount of
The three other reactors were all shut down by 2000. The cooling pumps were shut down in 2013. No cooling pumps means they *definitely* aren't running the reactors.
Here's an archived video of them draining the cooling basin.
https://web.archive.org/web/20... [archive.org]