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Vladmir Putin is very irresponsible to intentionally shoot at an operating nuclear reactor. Like the line from the movie Hunt for Red October says “Most things in here don’t react too well to bullets.” By the way, I'd also like to remind the Ukraine when an enemy is using artillery to shoot at your nuclear power plant, the safest thing to do in the public interest is to shut it down. There are three main factors contributing to the safe operation and use of nuclear-power. The quality of the design and construction of the plant, technical in nature to have the right equipment; adequate procedures for the operation of nuclear-power reactors to properly use that technology over the course of the plant's operational lifetime; and lastly the professional training of the operators and professional administration of nuclear operations and repairs conducted at nuclear reactor facilities. Factors that remain as valid today as they were back then. Factors that I doubt the Russian Army would know much about.
Vladmir Putin is very irresponsible to intentionally shoot at an operating nuclear reactor. Like the line from the movie Hunt for Red October says “Most things in here don’t react too well to bullets.” By the way, I'd also like to remind the Ukraine when an enemy is using artillery to shoot at your nuclear power plant, the safest thing to do in the public interest is to shut it down. There are three main factors contributing to the safe operation and use of nuclear-power. The quality of the design and construction of the plant, technical in nature to have the right equipment; adequate procedures for the operation of nuclear-power reactors to properly use that technology over the course of the plant's operational lifetime; and lastly the professional training of the operators and professional administration of nuclear operations and repairs conducted at nuclear reactor facilities. Factors that remain as valid today as they were back then. Factors that I doubt the Russian Army would know much about.
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It has little to do with their understanding of the long term damage if containment is breached. More to do with not caring about what the results are. If they threaten to Nuc any state which opposes or aids Ukraine, a reactor is small stuff.
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LCDR Andy Hill
MCPO Collins. I found a useful measurement using a crude thumb rule presented by the NRC: 0.5 curies per watt of reactor thermal power at time of shutdown. https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0910/ML091050226.pdf
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MCPO Roger Collins
LCDR Andy Hill I served most of my career working and sleeping near a nuclear reactor. That being said, most technical offered by the NRC are way over my head. It would be appreciated if you could keep us informed of anything related to Ukraines reactors in the future, perhaps dumbed down to layman terms.
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LCDR Andy Hill
MCPO Collins, In Layman's terms, Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia is one of the largest nuclear power installations in the world. Six separate reactors, all with same basic design as the reactor used on our navy submarines, but not designed to survive the shock or direct fire during combat and 10 times their capacity. So even if only one was damaged, the chaos to provide emergency response during the Russian occupation could trigger a sequence of events into a Level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale. Chernobyl and Fukushima were both level 7 events. To date these have been the only two Level 7 accidents. No one would do that intentionally unless they were stupid or insane.
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MCPO Roger Collins
LCDR Andy Hill Stupidity isn’t the issue, megalomaniac perhaps. The general public doesn’t understand the half life of the residue of a breach of containment. Thanks for the info.
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