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Could Putin Cause Nuclear Disaster in Europe?
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For a while now Russia has held the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, but with fighting there intensifying some are concerns about the impact of… well fighting inside a nuclear power station (because that certainly sounds like a bad idea)
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1 – https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/03/04/russia-ukraine-nuclear-plant-fire-radiation-zaporizhzhia/
2 – https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-shells-hit-high-voltage-line-at-nuclear-power-plant-kyiv-and-moscow-blame-each-other-for-attack-12666615
3 – https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-shells-hit-high-voltage-line-at-nuclear-power-plant-kyiv-and-moscow-blame-each-other-for-attack-12666615
4 – https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-what-are-the-risks-of-a-nuclear-accident-amid-the-war-with-russia-12668293
5 – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62449982
6 – https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-what-are-the-risks-of-a-nuclear-accident-amid-the-war-with-russia-12668293
7 – https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-what-are-the-risks-of-a-nuclear-accident-amid-the-war-with-russia-12668293
8 – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/14/ukraine-says-it-will-target-russian-soldiers-at-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant
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@GPDC100
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
Don't force him against the wall that what europe n America are doing to both nucleur power countries.. thinking they can win
@PavlosPapageorgiou
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
I think you'll discover it's the Ukrainians who are shelling the plant. The Russians are actually there, would they be shelling themselves?
@redbull1826
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
Aint no god damn way ur blaming putin
@christopherduke2477
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
More propaganda. The plant is being shelled by Ukraine, the kleptocrat midget actor, Zelenskyy even admitted it. Only the most brainwashed of individuals are saying different.
@evgeniystomikov5886
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
The man just said that Russians occupied the station early in SMO. Now it's being bombed. Do Russians bomb themseleves?
@LynnetteJJW
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
You failed to mention the russian colonel(?) that threatened to blow up the plant and cause a new global crisis
@leerobinson9969
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
Evidence please
@markerichannelly
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
Russian response is the equivalent of a bully smacking you with your own hands asking “why are you hitting yourself”? Chernobyl last happened in the Ukraine caused by Soviet interference, again this time caused by Russia…
@johndaubner973
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
As life imitates art, as Jack Ryan says in Red October "Some things in here don't react well to bullets".
Sometimes you need a little humor.
@johndaubner973
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
Of course, without the energy from that plant, Europe will be forced to rely on Mother Russia for energy.
@michaeljohn9279
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
What happen if eu fail and collapse?
@primetime3422
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
I’m willing to bet we r between 10-1 seconds to midnight right now.
@jamesvalpuesta7495
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
Usual Tish as ever. As you say Russia has been in control of this nuclear power station since March without problem . Russia is Not shelling itself !! Russia has been inviting the IAEA to visit daily to the nuclear plant here for the last three weeks without luck. However the IAEA is reticent to do this because of pressure from the USA. If the IAEA visit they will have to admit what we in the West refuse to say … It is Ukraine Shelling and Sending Missiles towards the Nuclear plant to cause Chaos & a disaster scorched earth style and then of course the western media would say it was Russia that did it and western media and TLDR would lap this up and repeat it ad infinitum.
Ukraines army is being neautralised in the Donbass; Pinsky was taken last week; this wasn't in the press. Just the news that some weapons dumps and airfields had been hit by sabotage drones. As usual we are only told in the west about highlighted successes of little overall consequences to the war. We are not informed that there will be no Kherson offensive, we are not told about the Russian advances in Pisky or outside Kharkov. Like Afghanistan; in months to come our press & TV will suddenly reveal that Ukraine is imploding and the Ukraine war is lost to Russia….
When will we learn in the UK , Europe & the USA that our leadership constantly lies outrageously to us….. Yet still most of Joe public believes the Tish that is fed to us daily…..
Shame on TLDR for not doing proper investigative journalism
. The information is out there on the web if you look for it. On many subjects TLDR does well but the Ukraine "news & objectivity" simply does not exist.
@jerry3790
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
The plant itself is relatively safe from an outright meltdown. However that still doesnt justify tempting fate
@unknownworld8238
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
Yo @everyone.
Cmon, Cernobylbis nothing for u?
@HealingTimeTV
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
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@cowwalterwhite27
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
Im happy to be one of the witnesses alive during Chernobyl 2 😊
@nicolasgagnon1605
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
It is not pronounced KerZon. Listen to how it is actually pronounced. Please!
@damienmacnamara2110
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
Fortunately "that's bad" appears in the current video thumbnail or I just wouldn't have known.
@ez9566
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
War is so messy. Who does this plant oficially belong to now? I mean ukrabian people still get energy
@maccybear8093
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
I've had the nastiest headache for the last four days. I'm not scared of nuclear wars. I do not fear death, I'm looking forward to it.
@UnitedUA
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
The Russian army is so afraid of HIMARS that they are hiding in nuclear power plants now! 🤘😎👌🇺🇦🇺🇦
@BibEvgen
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
False reportage.
If Russia controls the power plant, if Russia is at the power plant, then what is the point of the Russian army to shoot everything themselves.
Regarding ammunition, ammunition depots on the territory of the power plant, this is nonsense, it's the same if you start smoking at the gas station of cars.
Explain why Russia still supplies Ukraine with electricity, why Russia still pumps gas through Ukraine and pays money…………………..
@BruceDuncan
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
It's not really fair to call Chernobyl a BWR. The BWR is a water-moderated reactor, which means that when you boil the coolant the reactivity goes down. The RBMK (like Chernobyl) is a unique design and is a graphite-moderated reactor, which means that when you boil the water in certain circumstances the reactivity goes up. This is one of the factors which directly led to the accident.
@prometheusjackson8787
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
So are you actually going to look into whose shells those were?? Of course not! Ukraine can do no wrong. Because Russia would bomb its own plant right? Just like they bomb their own prison to in Donetsk a few weeks ago. You guys are absolute hacks
@reaperx452
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
that place will happen nuk explouseive Putin is behind it ! it's happening soon !
@ashleysmith1011
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
Great content thank you.
@davidschaftenaar6530
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
Consider for a moment that a certain most powerful country in Europe is currently considering cancelling it's plans to decommission it's six remaining nuclear powerplants, to not further exacerbate it's reliance on Russian gas. A reliance that formed mainly due to the previous closure of fourteen of it's nuclear powerplants since 2011… The choice of decommissioning these powerplants originally motivated by a fear of nuclear energy…. You might say that the Russians have certain financial interests in causing a nuclear disaster in Ukraine. Putin perhaps hoping to stoke fears of nuclear energy in order to dissuade western Europe from trying to escape it's dependance on Russian gas by turning to nuclear. I know that sounds awful and farfetched. But then again, that's what this whole military conflict has been like thus far.
@yaellramirez69
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
These transitions to sponsors are in very very bad taste.
@joshuawaldorf9559
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
If the disaster does happen than not only Europe goes under but all of Russian areas.
@bastiangalaz4580
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
my face when ukranian soldiers hide in the nuclear powerplant: ._.
@Blue_ensemble
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
Listen, regardless of whether you support Ukraine or Russia, can we leave nuclear powerplants alone please?
@BladeTheWatcher
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
Oh, stop panicking.
First, the Russians "only" exploit the plant as a "safe house", storing their ammunition, weapons, and soldiers there because they know Ukraine won't just target it with Himars. They have no intention whatsoever to use it to contaminate the area, or cause a meltdown. The reason is simple – they have thousands of nuclear weapons which can do the same faster, simpler, and with a more reliable, greater effect.
Second, a nuclear power plant won't explode. The worst that can happen is that the core melts together, it will ignite the whole structure, and the contaminated smoke will carry radiation causing secondary radiation poisoning. Even this is unlikely, as there are failsafes in place – they will just flood the whole block in case of a meltdown, which slows the reaction and prevents contamination of the air.
Third, causing any damage to the core itself is very hard. The whole core is housed behind meters of concrete, steel, and lead. The structures are massive, a single shell or missile is not likely to reach the core. If you ignite a whole ammo dump next to it, yeah, that can be dangerous. Even with that, the reactor can be stopped, the rods removed, so no meltdown can occur even if the reactor block is completely destroyed. Of course the Russians won't do it – as it would remove their "Himars immunity".
There is a lot of fear around nuclear energy. It is mostly unfounded, the technology is pretty harmless compared to, let's say, a war. In Chernobyl 30 people died of the meltdown. In this war, 30 Ukrainian soldiers are dying per DAY. Russian numbers are likely higher.
@mikez2779
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
nice picture of a burning oil refinery while you talk about fukushima nuclear plant…
Water at the cooling pond is not radioactive – a closer look at the picture should be enough to notice this pond is connected to Dnipro River, which in turn flows to the Black Sea.
not to even say a claim a highly contaminated pool would be just sitting there in the open, where any kind of flood would just wash all these contaminations away, is plain stupid…
and nice scaremongering with all those mushroom clouds – it's not possible for low enriched uranium to become supercritical and explode.
You want nuclear explosion, you need uranium that is 90+% enriched. 2-3% enrichment in nuclear fuel won't ever be enough.
@ghostrider13bg
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
Sooo, Russians are shelling nuclear power plant they control?
How is that logical?
@sultanofzanzibar2729
February 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm
Let's get this straight, the Ukrainians are saying the Russians are shelling their own soldiers?
Enough with propaganda, please. Russia controls the nuclear plant, why would it bomb it?