Why are they ironing the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant
In war as in war
Russia is gathering the UN Security Council, experts have begun to voice the threat of a new Chernobyl. And the heads, who consider themselves cold, repeat their own - the Kyiv regime trades in fear and this is how it wants to get more weapons.
The information war, although it does not seem to have many thousands of direct losses, according to the results, it may well compete with the usual one. This is a fact that has been proven time and time again. Brainwashing for this or that people can be no less terrible misfortune than a military defeat.
But in information battles, as well as on the battlefield, there is a chance to end up in a cauldron after a too brazen offensive. The situation around the largest on the Old Continent Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is just one of those. All rocket and artillery strikes on her by the Kyiv authorities, and with her submission, and all the media, immediately amicably attributed to the Russians.
However, after the long-awaited speech by experts from the IAEA Atomic Energy Agency, something began to change. At least direct accusations against Russia have gone somewhere. Nevertheless, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi (pictured) managed to hook us in this situation too, saying that the Zaporizhzhya NPP was “completely out of control”.
It is difficult to disagree with him - it is not controlled by the authorities of Kyiv, which is still official for Zaporozhye. But, frankly, the nuclear power plant is not controlled too much, and on the other hand, in terms of any effective resistance to shelling. Artillery shells are, alas, beyond the control of the air defense forces. So the Nazis are "snuffling".
And you know perfectly well, bastards, where they hit. Agree, there is something suicidal in all this - a clear sign of inadequacy, both for performers, well, they can be complete idiots, and for customers. But then what is going on in the minds of those who give the appropriate orders.
Drug addiction is a terrible thing when there is a breakdown, drug addicts are ready for anything, ready to drag millions of strangers and their own into hell with them. But do those who they order to shoot at the nuclear power plant know that the exodus to hell can turn out to be too long and terribly painful.
It will be like this for everyone, indiscriminately, although someone, perhaps, will sit out in bunkers. The same Rafael Grossi is seriously worried that the situation at the nuclear power plant, which came under the control of the RF Armed Forces in early March, "is becoming more dangerous every day." Without asking the question, why, in fact?
It all started without a fight
The Russians took control of the station quickly, with virtually no losses, and on both sides, and quickly stopped all attempts to hit the nuclear power plant. Terrorist and sabotage attacks took place, but they did not even receive intelligible coverage in the local media.
By the way, it was completely in vain - a powerful information wave had to be raised immediately. After all, no one ever had any faith that the Ukrainian drug addicts would remain indifferent to the fate of the ZNPP.
And the pressure on the IAEA, where Russia has quite stable positions, should not have been so belated. Today, one can be ironic as much as one likes against Rafael Grossi, who admitted that at the station in Zaporozhye now "there is no longer Kyiv, Brussels and Washington."
As a result, again, it is Russia that is being tried to be blamed. Meanwhile, the situation in the immediate vicinity of the Zaporozhye nuclear facility began to escalate when the Armed Forces of Ukraine began to receive more and more weapons from the West and were inspired by their "counterattacks". It seems that for the Russian "occupiers" the very readiness of the enemy to hit the nuclear power plant was unexpected.
Not to say that at all, but it was thought that things would not move further than “to scare the Russians”. However, it moved, although the chances of real damage to the still operating nuclear power units for Ukrainian artillerymen and missilemen are extremely small.
The ZNPP was completed in Energodar after Chernobyl with the expectation that it would withstand at least an indirect nuclear strike. In the most extreme case, it is possible to decommission the power units and seriously take up the removal of fuel assemblies from the facility. Not without the participation and control of the IAEA, of course.
Come back, Russia
It remains to remember something, but before that, it should be noted that the Zaporozhye NPP was literally taken away from under the nose of the Russian nuclear corporation, where they were ready to upgrade its fuel elements on the most favorable terms. These fuel elements are known to be much more efficient and safer than Westinghouse Electric products.
It was to her, that is, to the Swedish-American nuclear fuel, that they began to transfer all four remaining Ukrainian nuclear power plants. In addition to Zaporozhye, these are South Ukrainian, Rivne and Khmelnitsky with 15 operating VVER reactors of a Soviet design, much safer in comparison with the Chernobyl RBMK.
Returning Russian fuel, that is, our fuel rods, to Zaporozhye is a purely technical problem, although a lot of things have been heavily redesigned for foreigners, up to the in-reactor control systems. However, this is not the point here - now it is more important to ensure the uninterrupted and trouble-free operation of the ZNPP and, accordingly, the supply of electricity not only to the "occupied" territories, but also to Ukrainian lands.
The same restless general from the IAEA has already been invited to Zaporozhye to make sure how the station works normally without Kyiv and Brussels. Now the mouthpiece of the Western media is turning towards accusations of Russia in intimidating Europe with a nuclear catastrophe. Like in Chernobyl.
In the footsteps of Chernobyl
On this occasion, I would like to recall how in 1990 the Georgian military, at the beginning of the conflict with Abkhazia, first of all hit a nuclear reactor, a research one, I note, in the Sukhumi physical and technical department. The reactor withstood, now the same electricity that the reactor once worked in the capital of the unrecognized republic was fed to a kindergarten and a clinic.
And another excursion into the past. The author of these lines at the turn of the 80-90s took part in a very secret, although all secrecy is already in the past, a project called "Garnet". Then, in the wake of Chernobyl, a survey of many nuclear facilities throughout the USSR was carried out for accident-free decommissioning or production shutdown.
In this regard, such facilities as the Zaporizhzhya NPP, although I did not have a chance to visit there, already existed then, and I am sure, remain beyond any criticism even now. It should be noted once again that at the moment, the safe operation of the ZNPP can be threatened by shelling or bombing by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, although the dome of the rector must withstand their blows.
However, how many such strikes are possible in reality, I can’t say. But the IAEA simply has no right to ignore such things, like all independent, but, alas, in the majority, openly biased Western press.
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