Update, wrong month. It was today. Reported about an hour ago.
From 19FortyFive, April August 8:
It seems Russia appears to be willing to blow up Europe’s largest nuclear power station in Zaporizhzhya in Ukraine.
According to Enerhoatom, Ukraine’s state-run company that operates the country’s four nuclear power stations, the general in charge of the Russian army’s radiational, chemical, and biological defense forces has told the soldiers he commands at the Zaporizhzhya atomic energy station that “this land will either be Russian or a scorched desert.”
According to said general, Valery Vasilyev, “we have mined all the important objects of the Zaporizhzhya atomic station. And we don’t conceal that from the enemy. We warned them. The enemy knows that the station will either be Russian or no one’s. We are prepared for the consequences of such a step. And you, soldiers-liberators, must understand that we have no alternative. And if we receive the most heartless order, we must execute it with honor.”
The Zaporizhzhya power plant is located in the city of Enerhodar in southern Ukraine. Vasilyev could, if Putin so decides, unleash a nuclear catastrophe far worse than that at Chornobyl in 1986. The winds in that part of Ukraine generally blow from east to west and north to south, which means that radioactive fallout would likely affect Kherson, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, and Turkey. Even occupied Crimea might be affected. In other words, Putin and Vasilyev would effectively target a strategic nuclear weapon at the European Union and NATO....
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On February 28, before most of the talking heads had learned to pronounce the name, we pointed out the plant was a target:
Russian Troops Are Approaching The Largest Nuclear Power Plant In Europe
But never imagined it would be this sort of target.
Here's our March 2 update:
IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine: Russia Informs It Has Surrounded The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
Which means a flip of a switch and a lot of lights go out. Or worse.
Hope the steel plants don't have anything molten. If it solidifies it's time to shop for a whole new plant. Or worse....
