The accident at Zaporizhzhia NPP could be a disaster for Ukraine, but not for Europe, \u2013 Politico ,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zaporizhzhia NPP .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
KYIV. UkraineGate . 12. August . 2022 l Society.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reports of the shelling of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Russian-occupied Ukraine have once again raised fears of a nuclear disaster, but experts remain confident that the risk of a cataclysm similar to Chernobyl is low. Writes\u00a0about it Politiko a.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n According to experts, the consequences of Russian shelling in the worst-case scenarios will affect only residents of Ukraine who live within a radius of 30 km around the station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is due to the 10-meter concrete walls that protect the reactors. Only a flurry of targeted bombing can break through such protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A blow to nuclear fuel storage sites will also not be very effective, since the release of radioactive materials will spread only within a radius of 10-20 km.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n On August 5, the invaders, using rocket and artillery weapons, shelled the territory of a nuclear power facility located in the temporarily occupied Enerhodar. The nitrogen-oxygen station and the joint auxiliary building of the Zaporizhzhia NPP were damaged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On August 3, the Washington-based think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW) estimated that Russian troops likely used the power plant to “play on Western fears of a nuclear disaster in Ukraine in order to reduce the West’s will to provide military support for ukraine’s counteroffensive.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Isw also said Russia was “effectively using the plant as a nuclear shield to prevent Ukrainian strikes on Russian forces and equipment.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United States\u00a0supported calls for\u00a0a demilitarized zone around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source:\u00a0Ukrgate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The accident at Zaporizhzhia NPP could be a disaster for Ukraine, but not for Europe, \u2013 Politico , Zaporizhzhia NPP . KYIV. UkraineGate . 12. August . 2022 l Society.\u00a0 Reports of the shelling of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Russian-occupied Ukraine have once again raised fears of a nuclear disaster, but experts remain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":44496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11447,16],"tags":[813,996,2399,1000,1064],"class_list":["post-44495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-society","category-ukraine-news","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-ukraine-news","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44497,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44495\/revisions\/44497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}