The military deliberately destroys high-voltage lines in order to “connect” the nuclear power plant with the power system of the Russian Federation.
the scenario like Fukushima-Daichi in 2011 may repeat itself. One of the station's employees assessed the scale of the probable disaster at the ZNPP in an interview with the BBC.
According to him, the Russian military is breaking the power lines connecting the ZNPP with the energy system of Ukraine. The goal of the occupiers is to cause a blackout at the station in order to reconnect the power system of the ZANP to the power system of the Russian Federation through the ZAEP-Melitopol-Dzhankoy line.
The danger of such a blackout, as the expert explains, is that the power unit needs electricity to operate the pumps that cool the nuclear fuel in the reactor or in the holding pool.
“If you don't remove the heat from the nuclear fuel, it overheats. When the fuel is overheated, it expands, just like any material when heated. The fuel cells in which it is placed crack. Quite a lot of radioactive gases are released into the water and atmosphere. This is the same radioactive iodine.
In addition to gases, the remains of spent fuel and a lot of radioactive isotopes of various metals with a very long half-life get into the water. It would not be similar to Chernobyl. This is closer to what happened at Fukushima. This scenario may repeat itself at the ZNPP: but the reasons are not a natural disaster. These are the attacks of the Russian army,” the specialist explains.
He noted that the station's employees have carried out a number of modernizations in order to prevent a Fukushima scenario at the ZNPP, but the lack of personnel, who are leaving en masse, may play a fatal role in this process .
“This is not a sausage shop. This is a nuclear facility. What the Russian army is creating here is nuclear terrorism. The condition of the personnel here is beyond acceptable. And the number of people being evacuated is very large. Currently in we have approximately one-tenth of the staff of the number that should be. In the last few weeks, since the shelling began, almost half of the team has left,” the interlocutor notes.
At the same time, the IAEA is currently limited to purely “deep concern” , concludes the engineer.
“There is no help from the world in this situation. Every year, missions from the IAEA and other international organizations on atomic energy come to us. But when this happened, they all stand aside. The most we hear are words of “deep concern”, – emphasizes the energy engineer.
Previously, the GUR reported that the Russians are shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant from the village of Vodyane and are preparing provocations under the Ukrainian flag.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi sure that Russia will receive an adequate response to nuclear blackmail.
“Every day of the stay of the Russian contingent on the territory of the Zaporizhzhya NPP and in the neighboring areas only increases the radiation threat to Europe, which was not the case even during the peak moments of the Cold War,” Zelensky said in a traditional address on August 13.< /p> Related video
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