ukraine

PS, just reading up on Al Jazeera,
Sounds like it was a fire in a 5 story training building. The Russians now control the NPP, but the locals are still operating it. So no tank drivers pushing random buttons in the control room. I wouldn't trust a squadie with a nuclear plant on a good day. Or 'Military Intelignce'...
Also sounds like it is a good 'closed loop' system, where clean steam goes through the turbines and radioactive steam stays in the reactor. Meaning it is harder to spread radiation around from minor issues.

Major threats are the spent fuel rod pools, and the main power unit (what ever that is) probably the reactors themselves.

On the information war side, I rather suspect the Ukrainians are talking it up as much as possible to illicit more support from Europe.

"Russian army has opened fire on Zaporizhzhia NPP. No state except Russia has ever opened fire at nuclear power units. For the first time in human history, a terrorist state has resorted to nuclear terror. Only immediate European action can stop Russian troops"

www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/4/zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant-attack-all-you-need-to-know

Would ensure a long term buffer zone between Europe and them. Kind of like the area around Chernobyl.

wonder how much of that power gets exported westwards? Could be part of an energy isolation strategy 

that's 🤣👍👌🤣 funny.

Pootin is exerting media control over his people inorder to somehow make the wests reporting of the facts look like lies.

He is closing down the Russian protesters with violence.

He is spinning the truth inorder to make his "controlling of private Ukrainian people" look harmless.

He is controlling the information using force and the threat off imprisonment for people who say certain thing he doesn't like to hear ( like war)

Sounds like Ardern.

ALL THIS was bound to happen. Vladimir Putin’s war on Chechnya did not serve as a wake-up call for the West in 1999. Neither did the Kremlin’s cyber-assault on Estonia in 2007, its war on Georgia in 2008, the illegal annexation of Crimea, nor the start of its military aggression against Ukraine in 2014—all of which Russia denies. Numerous, blatant assassinations of “inconvenient” witnesses, opponents and journalists rang alarm bells, especially when carried out on European soil. But Western leaders pressed the snooze button time and again.

Western democracies introduced sanctions and expelled spooks disguised as diplomats. We expressed concern and condemned—sometimes, in the strongest possible terms—Russia’s habitual acts of aggression. We rebuked violations of the territorial integrity of independent states by Russia or its proxies. Many thought this would somehow suffice as a face-saving alternative to real action that would be costly for our economies and that might provoke the aggressor.

The West continued to do too little, too late. We blacklisted officials but we kept building pipelines. We introduced sanctions but turned a blind eye to the companies circumventing them. Western politicians danced with Mr Putin (some of them literally) and retired to chair the boards of Russian companies. These firms funded the Kremlin’s arms race and diverted billions to Mr Putin’s entourage.

The West allowed Mr Putin’s people to keep their fortunes in Western banks and spend them on Western education for their kids, villas and penthouses in Western resorts for their wives and five-star holidays with their mistresses on Western rivieras. All the while the Kremlin decried the rotten decadence and moral degradation of the West.

www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/03/02/lithuanias-prime-minister-ingrida-simonyte-says-russias-invasion-was-predictable