22-11-2024, 06:21 PM
(22-11-2024, 09:10 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: Shaun Burnie, a nuclear expert at Greenpeace Ukraine, said: "Russia is using threat of a nuclear disaster as a major military lever to kill Ukraine. A attacks On Sunday night & early morning, Russia unleashed barrage of more than 210 missiles & drones aimed at electricity gen and transmission targets around the country. Hours later, Ukrenergo, the country's main electricity provider, announced nationwide rationing to help the system recover.
Explosions were heard in cities of Kyiv, in Odesa and Mykolaiv in south, in Kryvyi Rih, Pavlohrad, Vinnytsia in central Ukraine, in Rivne and Ivano-Frankivsk in the west. Explosions were also heard near Ukraine's border with Moldova where grid connects to neighbor and into the rest of Europe.
Putin's attacks are not thought to have directly targeted Ukraine's three remaining op nuclear power plants, at Rivne and Khmelnytskyi in the west, and the South Ukraine plant, Greenpeace says Russia was deliberately trying to increase the stress they are under by targeting substations that they are linked to. This three sites account for about 2/3 of Ukraine's electricity b'cos previous attacks by Russia have destroyed most of their country's coal & oil-fired plants, while some of the country's hydro facilities have also been damaged.
Russia is risking a nuclear catastrophe to Europe, which is comparable to Fukushima in 2011, Chornobyl in 1986 or even worse."
Ukrainian NPPs reduce production due to Russian strikes, several substations damaged – IAEA.
The pressure group siao lehh. They called on Russia to immediately halt attacks on energy grid & Int'l Atomic
If can, the Energy Agency (IAEA) can help deploy permanent monitors in substations critical to the country's nuclear plants, sources contacted by the Guardian acknowledged Greenpeace's technical analysis of the crisis said.
