Chernobyl station and all nuclear facilities in the Exclusion Zone are without electricity.

[Nevilledog]

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SSSCIP Ukraine
@dsszzi
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Mar 9, 2022
Update on Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant:

750 kV ChNPP - Kyiv high-voltage line is currently disconnected due to the damage caused by the occupiers.

As a result, the Chernobyl station and all nuclear facilities in the Exclusion Zone are without electricity.

About 20,000 spent fuel assemblies are stored in the spent nuclear fuel storage facility-1. They need constant cooling. Which is possible only if there is electricity. If it is not there, the pumps will not cool. As a result, the temperature in the holding pools will increase.

After that evaporation will occur, that will lead to nuclear discharge.

The wind can transfer the radioactive cloud to other regions of Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and Europe.

In addition, there is no ventilation inside the facility.

All personnel there will receive a dangerous dose of radiation.

The fire extinguishing system also does not work, and this is a huge risk of fire caused by shelling.

The fight still goes on making it impossible to carry out repairs and restore power.
#StopRussia #Chornobyl
4:23 AM · Mar 9, 2022

[Moostache]

1. Jesus H. Christ...is this confirmed?

It is time to have Europe declare war on Putin. To sit back idly while he threatens the very survivability of life on the continent is insane. Take. Him. Out. Now. (because he has to go eventually and the price is not going to ever go down from here).

[Nevilledog]

2. It's from an official Ukrainian government account.

[Moostache]

4. Thank you...so many stories get legs before confirmation these days its hard to know.

Much obliged.

[zuul]

3. Yes, Confirmed by multiple news outlets.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

5. There should be backup generators for emergencies

But no telling if they were damaged in the fighting around the plant or if the Russians stole the fuel for them.

[Leghorn21]

6. There are, Beagle -- but is "several days" enough time to fix anything?

…Speaking to the BBC on Wednesday, Ukraine's Minister for Energy Herman Halushchenko, said authorities in Kyiv could not confirm anything about the status of the Chernobyl facility due to the monitoring systems being down. He stressed that the power supply needed to be fixed "as quickly as we can," but added that Chernobyl, like all Ukrainian nuclear plants, has a system of diesel generators designed to run essential systems in the event of electricity cuts.

"It has possibility to maintain for several days using the diesel generators," Halushchenko told the BBC.…

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-chernobyl-nuclear-plant-russia-power-outage/

[whopis01]

8. They said the backup generators have 48 hours of fuel. n/t

[AlexSFCA]

7. it's crystal clear why putin has been targeting nuclear plants

it is to ensure that Ukraine is inhabitable, he wants the land as a buffer against NATO, literal permanent no fly zone. He also doesn’t need 40M Ukrainians.

[Ilsa]

9. This would be a crime against NATO and the EU, and

even the rest of the planet. This needs to be stopped.

And what about the other nuclear power plants?