Россия invades Україна | UPDATE (14 May 2024) - Russia launches new invasion from the north into Kharkiv, soon to launch second corridor into Sumy. Situation is dire

[Ricofoley]

It's still pretty disturbing regardless! If it were up to me I would simply not fight around the nuclear power plant!

[Chris-]

Just now, Ricofoley said:

It's still pretty disturbing regardless! If it were up to me I would simply not fight around the nuclear power plant!

I would choose to not wage a war of imperialist aggression but I guess I’m just built different. 

[mclumber1]

I did nuclear power for 10 years.  What happened at Chernobyl is such a remote possibility for what could occur at this other power plant, you really shouldn't spend the calories worrying about it.  

 

Could there be a release of radiation if the Russians damage certain parts of the facility?  Yes.  Absolutely.  But it won't be like Chernobyl.

[Ricofoley]

They make pretty clear in the HBO series that the RBMK reactor was an absolutely dogshit design and they still had to break protocol in like 10 separate ways to get it into the state that it was when it exploded

[outsida]

Chernobyl was a fail safe test that went wrong because it wasn’t in the right configuration before the test began. 

[Ghost_MH]

2 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

I did nuclear power for 10 years.  What happened at Chernobyl is such a remote possibility for what could occur at this other power plant, you really shouldn't spend the calories worrying about it.  

 

Could there be a release of radiation if the Russians damage certain parts of the facility?  Yes.  Absolutely.  But it won't be like Chernobyl.

 

I know we're looking at different designs, but how would this compare to Fukushima? Also, it's probably safe to assume nowhere near the same level of immediate care and functional governing Japan was able to provide.

[Xbob42]

18 minutes ago, brucoe said:

Doesn't this sound almost like the dialogue of the tv series Chernobyl, where they kept saying: "It can't happen"? And then it happened.

What? Chernobyl happened because of extreme negligence and the dumbest possible people almost intentionally trying to make it happen. It was the most redneck shit ever.

[mclumber1]

1 minute ago, Ghost_MH said:

 

I know we're looking at different designs, but how would this compare to Fukushima? Also, it's probably safe to assume nowhere near the same level of immediate care and functional governing Japan was able to provide.

 

Fukushima was due to a loss of cooling, not a prompt-critical event like Chernobyl.  So I suppose a Fukushima like accident is possible, where a loss of cooling occurs due to the backup cooling systems failing.  This is a fairly slow process though - minutes to hours until a release of radioactive particles.  For perspective, Chernobyl happened over the course of a fraction of a second. 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

Spent fuel is probably a bigger concern than the reactors tbh

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

 

[CayceG]

Five of the six reactors at the ZNPP are shut down. So long as the cooling pumps keep running, it'll be fine. With power generation down, though, another danger (aside from shells hitting spent fuel--which is only a danger to the immediate area) is that Ukraine won't be able to meet its power demands. This plant supplies around 25% of the entire country's power. 

 

That's why Russia is doing this. They're just getting them to turn it off and move away from the power plant so they can occupy it. 

[Ghost_MH]

8 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

Fukushima was due to a loss of cooling, not a prompt-critical event like Chernobyl.  So I suppose a Fukushima like accident is possible, where a loss of cooling occurs due to the backup cooling systems failing.  This is a fairly slow process though - minutes to hours until a release of radioactive particles.  For perspective, Chernobyl happened over the course of a fraction of a second. 

 

I don't think anybody should be concerned with three eyed fish. I'm more concerned with poisoned drinking water seeing as the Russians have shown some a fantastic organizational skills and top notch maintenance.

[silentbob]

It’s slow but the NPP has a real-time link to follow the reactors

[CayceG]

 

 

"Oh hey, I haven't seen ol' Craig Mazin tweet in a while. I sure liked that Chernobyl series he did. I wonder what he's talking about now!

 

Oh... OH."

[Chairslinger]

44 minutes ago, brucoe said:

Doesn't this sound almost like the dialogue of the tv series Chernobyl, where they kept saying: "It can't happen"? And then it happened.

 

 

God himself could not sink this reactor!

[CayceG]

 

Everything's fine, everyone. 

 

 

 

I mean, aside from the war. But there's no nuclear meltdown danger. 

 

[Littleronin]

6 minutes ago, CayceG said:

 

Everything's fine, everyone. 

 

 

 

I mean, aside from the war. But there's no nuclear meltdown danger. 

 

No nuclear meltdown danger yet. 

Jeez people have a little optimism that things will get there. 

[Brian]

[outsida]

13 minutes ago, CayceG said:

 

Everything's fine, everyone. 

 

 

 

I mean, aside from the war. But there's no nuclear meltdown danger. 

 

[Brian]

That Russian money dried up real quick

[Jason]

 

[skillzdadirecta]

The Plant spokesperson was just on CNN talking to Anderson Cooper and he sounded a lot more worried about this plant than the pundits on this topic do.

[Air_Delivery]

If Putin wants NATO to intervene this is the way to do it.

[SuperSpreader]

21 minutes ago, Air_Delivery said:

If Putin wants NATO to intervene this is the way to do it.

 

They won't. 

[mclumber1]

The way to get NATO to intervene is to literally attack a NATO asset or country.

[Air_Delivery]

16 minutes ago, SuperSpreader said:

 

They won't. 

If there will be a nuclear disaster that takes out Europe I think they at the minimum are gonna try to stop that. 

[Brian]

Can’t believe ESPN robbed us of a high as fuck Bill Walton take. Shame on ESPN

[DarkStar189]

With Russia's performance thus far, they are the last people we need anywhere near a nuclear power plant. 

[Jason]

1 hour ago, Air_Delivery said:

If Putin wants NATO to intervene this is the way to do it.

 

If NATO intervenes the Civ II military advisor pops up to chew out Biden.

 

 

[Jason]

 

[Jason]

 

[PaladinSolo]

Pretty graphic video of the aftermath of an ambush against Russian forces in Hostomel yesterday.

 

Spoiler

 

 

[PaladinSolo]

 

[CitizenVectron]

Zelenskyy's got the FSB running around internally:

 

 

[LazyPiranha]

Paddington 3 should just be 90 minutes of a bear affably dodging the hunting attempts of a Russian poacher.