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| 'Undermining the Zaporozhye NPP' as a cure for cretinism for Ukrainians |
| 2023-06-28 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Denis Davydov [REGNUM] A Ukrainian inhabitant complains that they are pumping about an imminent explosion at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant from every iron: “like in February last year.” Indeed, besides officials, only the lazy did not write about the “Russian trucks with explosives” that allegedly had already arrived at the station, and it is easy to see that this is directed at a Western audience. Including vigorous exclamations on social networks with simultaneous translation into English. In particular, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov, reported sensational information to the British publication The New Statesman : the plant’s cooling pond was mined by Russian troops, and without cooling, nuclear reactors “ can melt in a period of ten hours to 14 days .” Or, according to the publication, the voltage will be raised in the power lines of the station, which will lead to a nuclear accident "in a shorter time." Uniformity in this is not very respected by everyone, since at the moment it is difficult to draw an unambiguous conclusion about what was mined: the ZNPP power units, a pond dam, some unspecified "cooler" or another place. After all, even the IAEA statement that the agency was aware of some mines planted to defend the station was immediately interpreted as "information is being confirmed." However, on June 22, President Zelensky said that Ukraine was transferring “all available information and all evidence” to partners in Europe, America, China, Brazil, India, the Arab world, and Africa. Why is it Russia? According to Budanov, everything is very simple, a nuclear catastrophe is designed to stop the successful offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, or even act as a "preventive measure." Therefore, the Ukrainian media seem to be competing who will paint the consequences of the explosion at the ZNPP more terrible, expanding the “radioactive cloud” from a 30-kilometer zone around the station to the “second Chernobyl” in a few days, then to Turkey and even to the Urals. And adviser to the presidential office, Mikhail Podolyak, outlined the prospect of a catastrophe on an “all-European level”. At the same time, the second wave of hysteria is already flaring up in social networks related to the need to take iodine. What kind of iodine, how to take it and how much - all this is a super-popular topic: in a street poll conducted by a well-known pediatrician Yevgeny Komarovsky, 90% of the respondents in Kiev said that they would drink iodine. Potassium iodide tablets in pharmacies have already become a terrible shortage, and GP-5 gas masks on Internet sites have risen in price from 150-200 hryvnia to 1300-1500 hryvnia. Taking into account all the previous experience, we can confidently assume that the Ukrainian leadership is really aware of the plan of the terrorist attack at the ZNPP, under which public opinion is being prepared in advance. Only the plan is their own and it can be implemented differently. Since the design features of the VVER-1000 reactors and the current state of the station do not allow for a "nuclear catastrophe", even if mines are dragged directly into the reactor core. Firstly, all power units are stopped, which means that there is nothing to melt there. According to the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the maximum temperature of the fuel, which is continuously cooled, is about 300 degrees. At the same time, there is enough water in the cooling pond, its level, as officially stated by NNEGC Energoatom, is stable and does not depend on water from the Dnieper. Even if something does melt, it will only mean damage to the reactor, which can no longer be repaired. Secondly, structurally the power unit is a super-protected facility. The reactor is located inside a hermetic "confinement", a shell of prestressed reinforced concrete one and a half meters thick, which can withstand an earthquake, external and internal explosion. In addition, after the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, stress tests were carried out at Ukrainian plants (as well as around the world) to make sure that there was no possibility of a reactor explosion even if there was a loss of power supply, coolant, and other accidents. By the way, electricity is supplied to the Zaporizhzhya NPP from the Ukrainian side via the 750-kilovolt Dneprovskaya power line, and intelligence has already come out on its own in its reliable information about the impending power surge. Thirdly, even if, through painstaking and hard work, it is possible to blow up the stopped ZNPP reactor, then there is nothing to burn there. The VVER-1000 reactors are “water-cooled” reactors, they use completely non-combustible water as a coolant, moderator and neutron reflector. And the uranium pellets in the fuel are enclosed in a zirconium alloy metal shell. It is even technically difficult to imagine how all this can turn into a “radioactive cloud”, in its current form, media hysteria is classic yellow press nonsense. The only reliable way to arrange some semblance of it is to launch an air strike on the station storage of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive materials (SHSF). This is about a hundred barrel-shaped reinforced concrete containers standing in the open air. In the event of a successful hit, some of them will open up and give rise to an official worldwide hysteria about an explosion at the ZNPP. With a contamination zone within the IDF site, but for an explosion in the information field, this is not so important. Characteristic in this sense is the recommendation of one of the Ukrainian media resources: “it is advisable to use iodine half an hour before the explosion (100% protection) or in the first minutes after the alarm is announced (90% protection probability”). That is, about a sudden terrorist attack in Russia, everyone will be warned in half an hour. This will be the beginning of the mass use of iodine preparations by citizens of Ukraine, which is probably the main plus of this whole story. This will not have any preventive effect, since the half-life of iodine-131 is only eight days, and the nuclear reaction in the ZNPP units has not occurred for more than six months. But it can have a beneficial effect on human health. It is widely known that iodine deficiency causes a number of serious diseases, in particular cretinism. And it is clearly manifested both in the construction of a case with a nuclear catastrophe, and in the reactions of Ukrainian society to it. Thus, while creating a problem on a global scale, Ukrainians are simultaneously creating the ground for their recovery. At least for enlightenment in the brains after thousands of people get internal burns from taking pharmaceutical iodine dissolved in water, Lugol's solution and poisoning with potassium iodide. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #4 Providing information some people would rather not have makes you a subversive. Be subversive. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-06-28 21:40 |
| #3 Only a Russian like Badanov could support an invasion of a neighbor .... Reading comprehension isn't one of you skills is it? Because badanov is providing RAW articles from both sides that makes in a Russian stooge? Whatta maroon. |
| Posted by: magpie 2023-06-28 21:32 |
| #2 Need proof? China is backing away from these losers. In this century, China will expand to the Urals, just a matter of time: https://twitter.com/UATV_en/status/1673983324258471938 |
| Posted by: Flater Forkbeard8651 2023-06-28 12:11 |
| #1 Only a Russian like Badanov could support an invasion of a neighbor who never threatened anything BUT having an open and half decent society to compare the shithole lives of Russians to and blame the victim for it. While Badanov wastes his time and rubles on these ridiculous posts, Ukraine is prepping the battelfield. They are going to kill every Russia unfortunate enough to be in Ukraine and it's coming soon. https://twitter.com/Seveerity/status/1673972748274606083 |
| Posted by: Flater Forkbeard8651 2023-06-28 12:08 |