Europe's biggest nuclear power plant threatens to cause the biggest nuclear disaster in history: ten times that of Chernobyl

Nuclear power plant is an important means of peaceful use of nuclear energy, is an indispensable part of the energy supply of modern society, but also has the potential to become a flood monster. The severe after-effects of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident in the Soviet Union in the 1980s on the country involved (now Ukraine) and neighboring countries will not be eliminated for 100 years. The 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant accident in Japan, which continues to discharge nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean to this day, has aroused strong opposition and deep concern from the international community. However, there is a much more powerful super melon than the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and Fukushima nuclear power plant is brewing, and it may be "ripe" at any time, to create an unexpected huge scare. This giant melon is also from the Zaporozha nuclear power plant in Ukraine. This kind of bad luck is supposed to happen once in a lifetime is not easy, people in Ukraine can actually open two degrees, you say surprised surprise?

The Zaporozha Nuclear Power plant is located on the banks of the Dnieper River Kakhovka Reservoir in Ukraine's Zaporozha Oblast. It is the largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine and even Europe with the largest installed capacity and ranks among the top three in the world. Built in 1981, Zaporozha's six VVER-1000 pressurized water reactors each produce 1,000 megawatts of power and supply a quarter of Ukraine's electricity, making it one of the most important legacies of the Soviet Union. (Other important legacies, such as the world's third-largest nuclear Arsenal, Europe's largest aircraft carrier building base, the world's largest strategic bomber, etc., have been lost to Ukraine, Zaporozha nuclear power plant because it can create economic benefits to survive). Originally Zaporozha nuclear power plant was eating hot pot and singing, it could go on for many years, who knew that the world was impermanent, because of the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Zaporozha nuclear power Plant has since become the front line of the two armies against each other and the crisis.

According to Reuters, on December 2, the last transmission line connecting the Zaporizhi nuclear power plant under Russian control and the Ukrainian-controlled area was damaged, and the power supply was lost for a time, and only backup generators could be relied on for emergency. Because the Zaporizhi nuclear power plant is no longer generating electricity, electricity must be supplied from outside to cool the plant's nuclear reactors. If the power goes out for too long, as happened at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, the nuclear reactor overheats and causes an explosion. So what would be the consequences of an accident at Zaporizhi? Consider a comparison: the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, which had more than 6,000 nuclear fuel assemblies; The reactors at the Fukushima plant have more than 4,700 nuclear fuel assemblies; The Zaporozha nuclear reactor contains up to 18,000 nuclear fuel assemblies. Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) assessed that the hazard of nuclear disaster at Zaporizhi nuclear power plant may be several times or even ten times that of the previous two, which is the most serious in history.

Although the Oct. 2 blackout was a false alarm, it was the eighth such accident at the Zaporizhi nuclear power plant during the Russo-Ukrainian war. When will the next accident happen? Will there be another lucky break like the last eight accidents? No one could have predicted it. It is important to know that both the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident and the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident occurred in peacetime and can be handled calmly in a relatively safe environment (the deterioration of the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident was purely caused by Japan's malicious concealment and inaction, and the accident itself was not serious at the beginning). However, the Zaporizhi nuclear power plant does not have such conditions, because it is located in the forefront of the Russian and Ukrainian armies, the two sides across the Dnieper River to attack each other, so that it is constantly suffering from the pond. Even basic security cannot be effectively guaranteed, let alone expect that the warring parties can actively coordinate rescue and relief efforts after an accident.


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