Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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They're rather more isolated than Russia though. Granted while most Russians are reliant on state-controlled TV news they're not completely cut off from the rest of the world.
Caporegime
Looks like the building might be on fire now! (based on location the rounds hit).
*Russia’s Military Have Started Shelling Europe’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant – AP.
https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1499536918115147783
https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1499536918115147783
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I get that Ukraine likely needs the energy from the planet but it's pretty criminal they haven't shut it down while a war goes on in their car park
You think they just press a button a nuclear power station shuts down?
Soldato
Most Nuclear powerplants can have emergency cut-offs. Control rods can be dropped to scram reactors. Its not instant but reasonably quick to shut down reactions.
Commissario
Unless you do an emergency SCRAM of the reactor (which itself isn't instant and usually results in the reactor needing fair amounts of work to ever get going again), it's a slow process to safely shuit down a reactor.
Normal, and sane military forces shouldn't be firing anywhere near a known nuclear reactor, as even if it's completely shut down on shell in the wrong place and you've got a fairly major incident, if not massive disaster (and even if your troops don't care about that, they might care about being closes to high levels of concentrated, highly radioactive materials, likely with a fair bit in dust form to breath in).
A controlled shutdown can take a few hours, but that doesnt deal with the heat decay which can last years.
As above, war in car park or not, they may as well continue producing as it doesnt change anything.
Soldato
Yikes! (If true)
Caporegime
Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYUT36YGOh8
They are stood in the carpark in the open like the unprofessional outfit they are.
Appears to be under attack anyhow - mostly RPG and sniper fire, occasional bursts of machinegun or heavier automatic fire.
Not sure which forces are where - some are saying it is Russians in the car park others Ukrainians - apparently the Russian tanks though are sitting back from the action currently and it is RPG and the likes rather than shelling.
Soldato
If that footage is the power plant, then wtf Russia, attacking a nuclear power station is just beyond! at this point you have to wonder how long can the UN realistically stay out.
Soldato
I've been watching a lot of videos from the last 4-5 years that seem to build up to the situation that we are seeing at the moment.
It's actually quite frightening how many warning signs and indicators have been clearly visible and present on the lead up to what we are seeing just now.
This is something that has been bubbling away underneath the surface for years. I know what I'm saying sounds obvious now, but whats happening now seems to have been inevitable regardless.
It's actually quite frightening how many warning signs and indicators have been clearly visible and present on the lead up to what we are seeing just now.
This is something that has been bubbling away underneath the surface for years. I know what I'm saying sounds obvious now, but whats happening now seems to have been inevitable regardless.
Once Russia started leaving equipment behind at forward staging areas while making a lot of noise about drawdowns it was getting pretty suspicious.
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I don't think you appreciate just how solidly built the containment units are, we're not going to get a Chernobyl or even a Fukushima, but they should have started shutting down the reactors when they knew troops were heading this way many hours ago, the fallout from the media if something nuclear leaky happens will be far worse than the actual fallout
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