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Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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And yet Ukraine still isn’t given what it needs to hit the Black Sea fleet, naval base, airfield used by the bombers etc.
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A bit more detail on missile strikes last night here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64897888
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They're still fighting with one arm tied behind their backs. Hopefully this will change soon, but it's annoying as hell.
When Ukraine gets everything it's asking for it will be Russia begging for aid.They're still fighting with one arm tied behind their backs. Hopefully this will change soon, but it's annoying as hell.
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Pretty pathetic really, now, this is what we British could do with aircraft covered in cloth and near medieval explosives compared to today.
In one night on July 27th nineteen forty three 730 British bombers, dropped nearly 2,500 tons of bombs on just one populous city, Hamburg. Much of Hamburg ended up looking like this.
Temperatures of 800 degrees centigrade plus drew air in to feed the colossal fires, to form winds of nearly 250 km/h and the canals literally boiled. The "success" of this caused us to do the same to Dresden a bit later. I don't care who is, or was, right or wrong, for men to execute such acts on his fellows is quite appalling. To celebrate such acts or seek worse retribution is probably even more perverse. Historically the Ukraine versus Russia situation is still fairly tame and controlled, until some form of peace and agreement can be reached I can only pray it doesn't escalate.
If Russia had the mean & capability, Kyiv would definitely look like that by now. Don't pretend the situation is 'tame & controlled' because cities don't look like this.
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The situation with the Nuclear Power plant seems awfully dangerous again now that Russian strikes have cut it from the grid.
They don't seem far off if this pic is anything to go by
Russia have been shown to be carrying out controlled demolitions in occupied territories. Hence the excavator to the right of the image and the lack of rubble.
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Nuclear power plants are awful dangerous at the best of times, despite an overpopulated world seeing them as a panacea to cheap energy. It's frankly risible so many intelligent people say in one breath how great and foolproof they are, then counter months later with how dangerous a common situation (war, earthquake, human error, blah bla) can make them....
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Common situation? War? 
Earthquakes can be accounted for, as they are in all buildings, human error not an issue, I work in a regulated industry where a single point of failure is never allowed, so assume an even more regulated industry would also treat critical points of failure the same.
Earthquakes can be accounted for, as they are in all buildings, human error not an issue, I work in a regulated industry where a single point of failure is never allowed, so assume an even more regulated industry would also treat critical points of failure the same.
Be under no illusion, it’s not because of Russian restraint that every Ukrainian city doesn’t look like that already. Simply Ukraine air defence won’t allow the bombers over to drop their bombs.
Every Ukrainian city they’ve attacked and been in range of artillery are either completely like the pic above or large swathes of them are.
It doesn't matter how well a nuclear power plant is built, it won't survive sustained bombardment of any kind. But thats true of every man made structure in the world? Chemical plants, heavy industry et all. All have the potential to cause massive environmental disasters. Fukishima took a tsunami and an earthquake (the highest recorded in Japan at the time). Human error has largely been removed due to the development and improvement of control systems.
So in normal day to day operation nuclear power stations are no more dangerous than many other industries. But start dropping cruise missiles on them, or deliberately target the supporting infrastructure then sure.
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Looks like the Ukrainian Airforce is going to get a nice little boost
www.rferl.org
Poland Ready To Hand Over All MiG-29 Warplanes To U.S. In Germany
Poland has said it is ready to hand over all its MiG-29 jets to a U.S. air base in Germany and urged other NATO members with the same type of Russian-made warplanes to do the same, the Foreign Ministry has said, although a U.S. official later said the announcement was a "surprise."
www.rferl.org
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Would have been more effective if they done a Deepfake of Putin telling people to go their nearest shelter because of a nuclear strike.
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What other power generation facility that may be under attack has the potential for such widespread, long term and numerically lethal or genetically altering effects when damaged or destroyed, as a nuclear power plant? If the facility is that safe why are the nuclear regulators wetting themselves, it's not even had a direct hit. (Yet...).
As for human error, they were similarly saying the possibility of it occurring was removed before these disasters, mainly down to, err, human error...
"Abstract
[en] A root cause is a factor inducing an undesirable event. It is feasible for root causes to be eliminated through technological process improvements. Human error was the root cause of all severe accidents at nuclear power plants. The TMI accident was caused by a series of human errors. The Chernobyl disaster occurred after a badly performed test of the turbogenerator at a reactor with design deficiencies, and in addition, the operators ignored the safety principles and disabled the safety systems. At Fukushima the tsunami risk was underestimated and the project failed to consider the specific issues of the site. The paper describes the severe accidents and points out the human errors that caused them. Also, provisions that might have eliminated those severe accidents are suggested. The fact that each severe accident occurred on a different type of reactor is relevant – no severe accident ever occurred twice at the same reactor type. The lessons learnt from the severe accidents and the safety measures implemented on reactor units all over the world seem to be effective. (orig.)"
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