The strike on Monday took place not far from the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant and its three reactors, but they remain operationally normal, according to the IAEA.
referred to the strikeThat projectile and explosion occurred some 984 feet, or about 300 meters, from the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant “industrial site,” the IAEA said. The event temporarily disconnected three power lines and brokeMeanwhile, the Zaporizhzhia plant continues to be in the news, mostly in regards to the status of its connection with the external power grid. Below is a brief update with what’s been happening with the two plants, and what the stakes are.
Regardless of the strength of these containment vessels, ordinance hitting a nuclear power plant could still have serious follow-on effects. “The basic reactor structure—the steel containment vessel, and everything that’s inside of it—is probably pretty robust and pretty safe,” she says. “But if you think about connections and electronic equipment that runs everything, you’re starting to get into a little more delicate set of things.
“Most of those things are not tested against missile strikes,” she adds, which makes it hard to know what the effects of a more direct hit would be.And another hazard lurks at plants: Spent fuel rods reside in cooling pools after they’re done with their work in the reactor, but before they go into more permanent storage.
“If they really wanted to make a radioactive mess, they could just aim at the spent fuel pools,” she observes. But that doesn’t appear to be Russia’s goal. “The hits are on the electrical connections, so they’re playing this game of, ‘we want to scare you guys in the West.’”
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