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Is Ukraine Hiding A Huge Radiation Leak At The Largest Nuclear Power Plant In Europe?
Two days ago we reported of the odd coincidence of a 2nd emergency shutdown at Ukraine's Zaporozhye Nuclear reactor - Europe's largest nuclear power plant - following our earlier fears of disinformation. Today, we get information of a leaked report sourced from three different place - unconfirmed for now (but RT is trying to verify) - that Ukrainian nuclear scioentists misled the public and a radioactive leak has been detected - citing the country’s emergency services claiming that levels of radiation are 16.3 times the legally permitted norm.
A radioactive leak has been detected at Ukraine’s Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant, the largest in Europe, a media report says, citing the country’s emergency services. The report claims that levels of radiation are 16 times the legally permitted norm.
LifeNews published a leaked report by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, which denies an earlier assessment by the plant’s authorities that the radiation at the facility is equal to the natural background following an incident on Sunday.
RT is trying to verify the report.
On Sunday, one reactor at the plant was automatically shut down after a glitch, becoming the second halt in operations in recent weeks. The reactor was running at 40 percent of nominal power, the plant's official website said, adding that radiation at the facility being at the level of 8-12 microroentgens an hour.
The error was later announced to have been corrected, and the troubled unit – Power Block # 6 – was plugged back into the network.
On November 28, Zaporizhia's Unit 3 was switched off for almost a week. The shutdown, which was reportedly caused by a short circuit, was made public five days later, when Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk revealed it during the first meeting of his new Cabinet.
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Zaporizhia nuclear power plant is one of the four nuclear power plants in the country, which together supply a large part of Ukraine's energy needs. The Zaporizhia plant alone, Europe's largest, supplies at least one-fifth of the country’s power needs. It is the world’s fifth-largest nuclear power plant.
Ukrainian nuclear scientists misinformed the public and the media about the real state of affairs in the Zaporizhzhya NPP. The Internet got a summary of the State Service for Emergency Situations of the 28 and 29 December, which refute the assurances leadership Zaporizhzhya that the sixth unit was put into operation in the evening on 28 December. In addition, the permissible level of radiation at the plant, according to the measurements, was above the norm by 16 times.
Both documents addressed to the Chief of State GSCHS Ukraine in Zaporozhye region - Major General Civil Protection Lepsky. In summary for December 28, reported that at six o'clock in the Zaporizhzhya NPP due to damage to the transformer emergency generator protection system worked 6th unit.
- At 6 am on December 28 at the Zaporozhye NPP operates five units (1,2,3,4,5) ... The total capacity of 4278 MW nuclear power plant radiation background - 4.90 mSv / year., SVYAP - 4.76 mSv / year . - 16.3 times higher than the acceptable norm - said in a bulletin.
Recall that the press service of the Zaporizhzhya NPP and representatives of "Energoatom" in the afternoon on December 28 reported an emergency situation, noting that the background radiation in a sanitary zone around the plant remains normal. After that, the head of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine Dmytro Demchishin stated that repair of power will take a few days.
However, on the evening of December 28 the press service of Zaporizhzhya reported the completion of repair work and emergency unit is connected to the grid.
- December 28 2014 in 22 hours 35 minutes unit number 6 Zaporizhzhya after the fault is connected to the network. Being a set of power ... - said in a statement on the official website of the plant. There's also noted that the background radiation in the vicinity of the station corresponds to the natural.
However GSCHS summary for December 29, completely refuted this statement nuclear scientists. The document says that by 6 am Monday emergency sixth unit is not connected, the total capacity remained at the level of the previous day, and the radiation level in the vicinity of nuclear power plants and the storage of radioactive materials (SVYAP) increased.
- At 6 am on December 29 at the Zaporizhzhya NPP in five units (1,2,3,4,5) ... At 6 am on December 28 sixth unit is disconnected from the unified energy system ... The total capacity of 4278 MW nuclear power plant radiation background - 5.05 mSv / yr., SVYAP - 4.91 mSv / year. - Exceeding 16.8 times - said GSCHS Ukraine.
Recall first of background radiation above the threshold of 14 times in the area of ??Zaporozhye NPP evening of December 28 said the deputy chairman of the People's Council DNI Dennis Pushilin. He explained leak Ukrainian nuclear scientists attempt to install power rod blocks produced by the American company Westinghouse.
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Of course, there is no way to actually know what is happening on the ground as the NPP is located close enough to the "fog of war", that its status, and updates thereof, could merely be part of the fog of war. That said, if there is an unspoken message here by Ukraine, which recently handed over its gold to unknown "Western" interests, and suddenly feels neglected by its western allies (as its central bank head is about to find out personally), it is targeted directly at the IMF: "hand over more loans, or the nuclear power plant gets it."
However, this appears more serious than simple false flags.
Curiously, all this takes place at a peculiar time: just as Ukraine announces it is replacing its nuclear fuel supplier from Russia to US conglomerate Westinghouse:
Ukraine on Tuesday sealed an additional nuclear fuel supply deal with US giant Westinghouse in order to ease its energy dependence on Russia.
Westinghouse Electric Company said it signed a deal in Brussels with Ukraine's Energoatom state nuclear power provider "to significantly increase fuel deliveries to Ukrainian nuclear power plants through 2020."
No figures were immediately available for the value of a deal which Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk had said would take place.
Nor were there details on the quantities of fuel or number of reactors involved. The two sides had earlier this year extended their existing cooperation agreement through 2020.
A top Energoatom official said this month that Kiev would like to purchase additional Westinghouse nuclear fuel for 13 of its reactors.
US-based Westinghouse currently supplies fuel for only one of Ukraine's 15 operating units -- the third reactor of the South Ukranian Nuclear Power Plant that is located 300 kilometres (185 miles) south of Kiev.
Ukranian media said Energoatom and the US firm had been cooperating on nuclear fuel supplies since 2000.
The former Soviet republic had previously relied on Russian nuclear fuel manufacturer TVEL.
And, most coincidentally of all, just as the news was developing, the Russian Ministrey of Foreign Affairs tweets this:
By replacing #Russia with #US supplier of nuclear fuel, #Ukraine endangers health of its citizens, peoples in #Europe http://t.co/YqeVgYT6lM
— MFA Russia (@mfa_russia) December 30, 2014
Just one too many coincidences in a row?
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No need to invade now...
It's a defensive maneuver, a "poison pill" on the border of disputed territory.
Masterful, but now they get to keep it... oops
Well, back in the day there was a little problem with a plant called Tjernobyl and well... the number of people who bacterial invections dropped BIGTIME! So it's actually a good germ killer. THE FLUE DOESN'T STAND A CHANCE!!!
Gee, what would make anyone think that Amerikan-backed Ukrainian Nazi’s would not be entirely forthcoming when things get serious.
What did Cameron’s best EU bud, Juncker, say about serious situations?
"...as the NPP is located close enough to the "fog of war", that its status, and updates thereof, could merely be part of the fog of war..."
No, no and no again. The plant and its city of workers - Enerhodar - is a good hundred miles from the nearest areas of conflict in Donbass. There is no 'fog of war' at the plant or among the thousands of resident workers there and the rest of Ukraine. There's some drama between the junta, nuclear regulators and Westinghouse, but nothing related to the separatist conflict much further to the east in Donbass. Zaporozhya city proper is miles away to the north-east on the other side of the reservior. They're unloading U.S. Air Force transports at the airport there for god's sakes - nobody is shelling anything.
Enerhodar is a secure nuclear city in the Kiev-controlled part of central Ukraine. In fact, the only trouble remotely related to the conflict was a few months back when a couple dozen armed Pravy Sector thugs (who currently run Kiev's Interior Police) showed up in Enerhodar for a separatist protester beat-down. Enerhodar cops arrested them and wouldn't let them near the plant.
If anyting unusual or dangerous is going on at the Zaporizhzhya NPP then it's the usual criminal secrecy of the nuclear industry, slimy politicians or paid-off regulators.
There IS the criminally-insane Jewish-Ukrainian oligarch and plant owner Kolomoisky that wanted to dynamite the dam above the plant a few months back, but that's really a mental health issue, not a civil war issue.
Global network of radiation detectors:
http://www.uradmonitor.com/
Nothing in Ukraine yet.
"The earth going to be here its not going anywhere, the oceans and land etc, the only question is will humans still be here" George Carlin
But is no payment needed for free radiation therapy comrades!
What is to worry so much?
Amerikanski is always worry think life is to be perfect.
Radiation help keep house is warm, no?
EbolaGlowya
Amerikanski cry like baby WWWHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH RADIATION!
Is nothing next to Tsar Bomb detonate on big Amerikanski city:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNYe_UaWZ3U
Then cry all you mooksi want!!
16.5x normal? So it's less than Fuckushittinme's radiation on the West Coast, no?
Say, BTW, what with that reactor being shut, one of the world's largest, supplying power to "The" Ukraine, what will they be using for alternative sources of power?
Rooski Natural Gas, no?
Shit! It all comes back to those pesky gas pipelines!
No shit. They have some serious catching up to do. Some of Fukus emmissions are above the 500,000x normal background. But hey, who cares.
U-tel-co !?
Even conventional warfare is out of the question, because the landscape is littered with this gigantic dirty bombs.
Just target your opponents nuke plants and ---
Game over.
Radioactive Xenon is a powerful inducer of lung cancer. It always seems to leak out of accidents....
Holy Ukrainshima!
Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is one of the four nuclear power plants in the country, which together supply a large part of Ukraine's energy needs. The Zaporozhye plant alone, Europe's largest, supplies at least one-fifth of the country’s power needs. It is the world’s fifth-largest nuclear power plant.
With Chernobyl and this plant, let's just start calling the whole place Ukranium.
Enter JT:
"Time to grab guns and kill damn Russians"…"They must be killed with nuclear weapons."... "not even scorched earth won't remain where Russia stands" - Yulia Tymoshenko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shG1b8DGnkU
Folks, Our Evidence Points To Putin As The Cause...
Ukraine’s switch to the use of upgraded nuclear fuel from the United States at its nuclear power plants built in the Soviet times could threaten safety both at the domestic level and in Europe as well, It seems that the Chernobyl tragedy did not teach Kiev authorities any lessons concerning a scientifically feasible approach to the [peaceful] use of nuclear energy,
Ah so, "fxck the EU" !?
The CIA....or....FBI.....or.....NSA.....says
North Korea, or Russia, or GOP....
The Ukrainian's probably aren't as good as the Japanese at saying "Do not worry" and having it believed; and if there is a leak it is close enough to Russia and the rest of Europe that they won't be able to hide it for long.
Yeah, I noticed I am growing a third ball down there. Maybe I should go see the doctor? On the other hand I might join the three-titted ladies in the upcoming mutant section of my local town. As long as we are not send off to Mars - fuckit.
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HAHAHAHAHAHA like that will stop Obama from sending American troops anyway :)
But jokes asside... WE NEED A ICEWALL!!! PRONTO!!!
Kudos to "ice wall" Game of Thrones reference.
G.O.T. where kings and leaders get poisoned, heads chopped off or shot with an arrow while on the shitter! All ours get is Corzined.
Corzined...
When something of value is stolen, and everyone who was in charge of safeguarding the valuable claims ignorance of just about anything. People in charge who confronted with questions about the valuable items usually answer, "I just dont know where it is" or claim that the valuables were "vaporized" when it was their job to know. This comes from the MF Global scandal, and their CEO Jon Corzine, who stole 1.6 billion dollars of client money testified that he didn't know where the money was or where it went. Several other financial officers of the firm also claim total ignorance of everything and claim the money was "vaporized". Apparently claiming total ignorance of everything also clears you of all criminal charges as well.
Maybe we can bring the crack team from Fukashima to Ukraine where they can build "ice walls". "Ice walls" solve everything.
Yeah - the playbook for handling this was perfectured (I couldn't help myself) at Fukashima. Lie, adjust safe level standards, lie some more, adjust some more....on land in eastern europe might get a bit more attention/panio though. Different culture(s) in play.
We irradiated some folks.
CBLI is micro cap American biotech comp that has the only antidote for radiation toxicity. It essentially 3 months from FDA approval. Full disclosure I own it. Take a look. Why not make some cha ching from a crisis? Why do you own gold? Exactly!
Close, this is a job for PRs finest, the cleanup crews at tepco, See-BS, and Faux to tell us that it's probably just background anyway.
Maybe we can stick Nuland in there and turn her every 20 minutes.
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Add Susan Rice, Samantha Power, and Hillary along with Ms. Nudelman and you could call it an E-Z-Bake Coven.
E-Z Bake Coven
In the running for "Best Comment of 2014"
Hey Tyler, now there's an idea for a New Year's Open Thread!
Old map of Ukraine inexplicably has Crimea has part of Ukraine despite acceding to the RF earlier this year, and also fails to note the contested regions in the east.
Any country that the Nobel Prize Winner touches becomes a failed state. Look at the 7 Muslim countries he has bombed - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Somalia. Ukraine is learning the hard way.
Obama is satan. Clinton or Bush in 2016 will be satan on steroids!
Obama is the last president of USA
Can't forget Kenya and the US either.
pods
No fears, Tepco is on the way.
Oh wait...
Even if they weren't hiding anything we would never know about it. Where is FuckYouShima again?
The invisible weapon - Nuclear Pollution/Radiation.
"I'm turning Ukrainian" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
16 times the legally permitted norm!!!!!
my god... it's almost as bad as on Elis Island...
yeah, the glowy stuff on my timex is higher than that
and it doubles as a birth conception! Just check out the demographic charts and compaire it to when Timex watches where first sold!
When I sleep with my Sig, I make sure I keep the Tritium sights turned away from my face. Just to be sure...
From RT, May 2014.
The rivalry for nuclear fuel supply to Ukraine between Russia’s nuclear fuel cycle company TVEL and America’s Westinghouse took a twist when in April 2014, shortly after the armed coup, Kiev signed a new deal with America’s leading nuclear fuel producer, Westinghouse Electric Company, instead of the Russian TVEL company that has been supplying fuel rods to Ukraine for years
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Though nuclear engineers were skeptical of the pilot probe, the government of former president Viktor Yushchenko signed a deal in 2008 with Westinghouse on fuel rod supply, despite the fact that American nuclear fuel is significantly more expensive and technologically different: Russian nuclear fuel rods are hexagonal in section, while Americans produce fuel assemblies of square section.
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When in 2012 the time came to replace the fuel assemblies, Ukrainian nuclear engineers found that Westinghouse assemblies deformed during exploitation and got stuck in the core.
http://rt.com/news/159848-ukraine-nuclear-deal-westinghouse/
But, american corporations can make money. It's all that matters, apparently.
that's just retarded
Square pegs in round holes. I'd laugh but it's too scary if it's true.
But don't give up, get the big hammer. What could go wrong?
bribes mattered
We bribed some folks
Ukrainian nuclear engineers found that Westinghouse assemblies deformed during exploitation and got stuck in the core.
Westinghouse gets a free pass as did GE for Fukushima:
Fukushima: General Electric Knew Its Nuclear Reactor Design Was Unsafe … So Why Isn’t GE Getting Any Heat for Fukushima?GE Engineers and American Government Officials Warned of Dangerous Nuclear Design
5 of the 6 nuclear reactors at Fukushima are General Electric Mark 1 reactors.
GE knew decades ago that the design was faulty.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/fukushima-general-electric-knew-its-nuclear...
GE - we bring good things to life - like Fukushima
CBLI is micro cap American biotech comp that has the only antidote for radiation toxicity. It essentially 3 months from FDA approval. Full disclosure I own it. Take a look. Why not make some cha ching from a crisis? Why do you own gold? Exactly!
Waiting now how they'll put the blame on Russia
Aha, you've found the real message: "Hey Russia, don't get near our nuclear plant, or we'll blame you for the meltdown the same way we did with the Malaysia plane"
Russian backed rebels shot it down!
NK hackers did it, with Ruskie help!
Tear-a-wrists!
Chornobyl got 3 thumbs up! Is that pic from AIRBNB?
The fifth largest nuclear power plant in the world may be as valuable as the ports of Crimea or the breadbasket of Donbass and related territories.
1. Anyone care to present a clear explanation of the differences between the 'Russian' and 'American' nuclear fuel rods.
2. Is mox/reprocessed waste being fed to the plant near the Russian border?
3. Who is in charge and deciding to mix/swap fuel rods? Are there UN Atomic agency or IAEA experts on the ground?
IF not: WHY not?
4. Why and how is 'American' nuclear fuel is being purchased and under what conditions it is being transported transported to Ukraine.
Nuclear fuel is nether cheap nor simple to handle/transport. Somebody is being very well paid.
Flying nuclear fuel/waste/mox rods into a civil war zone, complicated by NATO and Russian aggressions, without the sorts of international oversight that is regularly foisted upon countries such as Iran, does not sound like a very good idea...
I'm not so sure the Russians would consider that big nuke as "valuable." Ukraine has been operating them on a shoestring budget for years. Who wants an old-tech nuke that has years of deferred maintenance?
It might be worth Russia's time and effort to "invade" Ukraine long enough to shut down the nukes and string more transmission lines from Russia. Aren't the prevailing winds from the west? If I lived in Rostov area I'd be moving my kids out of there.
"...The fifth largest nuclear power plant in the world may be as valuable as the ports of Crimea or the breadbasket of Donbass and related territories..."
Which is exactly why Kolomoisky will envoke the Sampson option and cook every last Russian-speaking baby in central Ukraine if anybody (cough... separatists) try to touch his personally-looted nuclear plant property.
"...1. Anyone care to present a clear explanation of the differences between the 'Russian' and 'American' nuclear fuel rods..."
The fuel rods themselves are not much different - thumb-sized pellets of uranium stuffed inside and sealed in a few-meter-long zirconium-alloy tubes (= rods). A few dozen tubes are assembled into framed bundles with a big handle at the top. Dimensions and construction of the bundles are unique to reactor types - they affect everything from burn calculations to cooling performance to coolant corrosion control. Russian TVEL bundles probably look identical to Toshiba/Westinghouse bundles - the devil is in the details. Russia has years of tweaking their desgins to work in these specific VVER reactors. Westinghouse is... well, trying. They'll eventually figure it out. It's more a matter of experimenting with their designs in an operating one-gigawatt reactor that gets everyone a little twitchy.
"...2. Is mox/reprocessed waste being fed to the plant near the Russian border?..."
It's not near the Russian border, but no - they don't use MOX in Ukrainian VVER reactors (yet). Technically possible, I suppose.
"...3. Who is in charge and deciding to mix/swap fuel rods?..."
Ukraine reactor crews have been maintaining their reactors for thirty years with the help of Russian manufacturer engineers. Fuel is replenished on schedule for every reactor - about a third of it every year or so. The core is reconstituted every refueling - the remainaing 'used' bundles are moved around to different areas and mixed with the new fuel bundles.
Ukraine has nuclear regulators (like our NRC) that approve everythign for the reactors, including what fuel is permitted and purchased for use. They had undergone a program of 'fuel diversification' to get away from exclusively using Russian TVEL fuel and were running qualification tests with Westinghouse Swedish-manufactured bundles which (initially, anyways) proved problematic. They failed the second round of qualification testing and were prohibited for use in Ukrainian reactors in 2012. Yatz and his Scientologist super-pals swapped the leadership of Ukraine's nuclear regulatory agencies and - surprise - the Ikea VÅLLÖ line of rods were quickly approved for use. Some assembly required.
"...Are there UN Atomic agency experts on the ground?..."
One can only hope those worthless fucks were not invited. Judging by the degree of censorship regarding the recent reactor trips, I'm affraid their infestation is probably a done-deal by now. Their expert spin-control seems rather evident.
"...4. Why and how is 'American' nuclear fuel is being purchased and under what conditions it is being transported transported to Ukraine..."
Westinghouse was an American company years ago - it's now part of the Toshiba nuclear Yakuza. The Ukraine bundles are actually manufactured in Sweden by small elf-like creatures called tomte enslaved by Ikea. The fuel rods and bundles are not made in the USA (nothing is). They probably ship, truck or rail-car the bundles to the nuclear plants. They are not irradiated prior to being loaded into the reactors and are 'relatively' safe before cooking, but you should avoid licking them.
"...Nuclear fuel is nether cheap nor simple to handle/transport. Somebody is being very well paid..."
Tomte will work for next to nothing if you promise not to beat them and let them live under your floorboards. Or so I'm told.
"...Flying nuclear fuel/waste/mox rods into a civil war zone..."
There are no Ukrainian nuclear plants in or near the areas of conflict and they don't fly fuel bundles anywhere - they're way too heavy.
Thank you for the response, Paveway IV.
Neither Westinghouse nor Ukraine Nuke regulators were offering many details of the specific problems with their bundles.
From the various reports, I recall 1) a problem with the zirconium tube metallurgy and excessive corrosion rates due to the cooling water chemistry and/or frame friction, and 2) rod and frame fatigue/distortion from some kind of unanticipated thermal or mechanical stresses related to the design of the bundle structure itself. A lot of this is from well-mangled translations, so take it with a grain of salt. The primary risk here would be the rods leaking radionuclides from tiny fatigue cracks or holes into the coolant water, contaminating the reactor water and everythign it touches far more than 'normal'. That would result in an extremely expensive clean-up and repair job and the risk of some radiation release, but isn't really something that would normally lead to a catastrophic event like a meltdown. It's not like the fuel rods would actually bust in half and spill pellets of white-hot uranium out the bottom of the reactor, but I'm no expert.
Engineers at TVEL and Westinghouse have spent their entire careers on design issues like these with fuel rods/bundles. The issues above are not a reflection of the competence of Westinghouse engineers - they likely had little of the base data that TVEL has been collecting and using for years on VVER reactor fuel bundle performance. TVEL engineers would have similar challenges if they had tried to design fuel bundles for, say, non-Russian reactors like Fukushima's GE BWR reactors. No idea if they ever have, but nuclear fuel companies make money by designing and selling fuel bundles to whomever. There really isn't anything unusual from a commercial perspective about Westinghouse trying to muscle in on Ukraine fuel sales. One just would have hoped the qualification tests went a little better than they supposedly did - we'll never really know for sure.
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Yatsenyuk: Ukraine About to Sign Agreement to Buy More US Nuclear Fuel
| 30.12.2014 | 17:37Ukraine is about to sign an agreement to buy more nuclear fuel for its Soviet- and Russian-made reactors from the US company Westinghouse, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Tuesday.
Nuclear energy experts and officials have repeatedly warned the Ukrainian authorities that it would be unsafe to use US-made fuel in reactors of Soviet and Russian design.
"Today, an agreement with Westinghouse to increase nuclear fuel supplies to Ukrainian nuclear power plants is being signed in Brussels," Yatsenyuk said.
In September, Ukraine gave the green light to its nuclear power plants to receive supplies of upgraded nuclear fuel from Westinghouse, a move criticized by the Russian state nuclear agency Rosatom as a political one.
Relations between Russia and Ukraine, including cooperation on nuclear energy, have soured amid the conflict in Ukraine, which prompted Kiev's turn to US nuclear fuel makers for some of its power plants.
This decision has raised security concern after the fuel sourced from Westinghouse had dangerously malfunctioned at power plants in the Czech Republic. In 2006, a Czech nuclear power plant operating Soviet-designed reactors experienced depressurization with the Westinghouse fuel, leading to its suspension of cooperation with the company.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/12/30/yatsenyuk-ukraine-about...
"Nuclear energy experts and officials have repeatedly warned the Ukrainian authorities that it would be unsafe to use US-made fuel in reactors of Soviet and Russian design. "
When political egos and ambitions and expediences take precedence over nuclear safety...
The people making these decisions should be held under house arrest inside the plants.
These damned politicians will never choose wisely without the gun being literally held to their own heads.
If radiation detectors start going off in Sweden, we'll know it's Chernobyl 2.0
Oh fuck! Chernobyl fucked up the Reindeer Meat for years! No more rökt renkött smörgåsar till middag!
I said before, a real nuclear accident could open the door for NATO to enter and secure the Plant and bring in Western experts to handle the crisis, all needing NATO troop protection. It is a perrrfect "Cat's Paw" move!
When the accident first broke, insiders in the Donetsk break away region contacted their sources in the plant, i.e. Ethnic Russian Plant Workers. Their sources said just this, a large radioactive leak was underway, and Kiev's Junta was telling lies about it. Now we see that this is indeed the cases. Score one for the Rebel's Intelligence Services.
Loyd Blankfein did it.
What, not Put-in ?
Ukraine: Radiation leak at Zaporozhye nuclear plant - reports
http://investmentwatchblog.com/ukraine-radiation-leak-at-zaporozhye-nuclear-plant-reports/
The probability of this being deliberate sabotage is certainly greater than 0%.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-crisis-goes-nuclear-the-storming-of...
radiation cannot "leak"
the human race is terminal
From Wiki:
Globally, there have been at least 10,692 (civilian and military) recorded acts of 9 from 1952 to 2009 (defined as incidents that either resulted in the loss of human life or more than US$50,000 of property damage, the amount the US federal government uses to define nuclear energy accidents that must be reported), totaling US$20.5 billion in property damage
Yes sir, safe, clean, green and carbon friendly. Only averages out to 170 each year. We have no more sense to be fooling with nuclear power than a baby does with matches in a grain bin,
Stupid is as Stupid does...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accidents_by_country
Relax - Krugman said he'd look into it.
It looks like it will soon be Russia's problem.
At the rate these major nuclear events are happening the whole planet will be flooded with radiation and practically uninhabitable for humans by 2025. Right on schedule according to significant decreases in global population noted by the company Deagel, Agenda 21, and oddly enough also mentioned in the movie They Live
Since the US golf courses are closing one after another, I suggest buying large areas around these plants, land is cheap.
A golf course with 50 or 60 holes only for tycoons, banksters and politicians.
Somenete and only so the peace talks would result.
hehe.
From my understanding, was playing Golf always excuse to catch the balls and sit on cue.
It is not sport so to speak, manly.
hehe.
http://www.tomatobubble.com/putin_obama.html
i was junked for pointing out the nuclear angle of the ukraine-russia-usa conflict 4 days ago:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-26/60-prominent-germans-appeal-aga...
http://www.energypost.eu/ukrainian-nuclear-power-emerges-russian-shadow/
While discussions around Ukrainian energy dependence on Russia usually focus on gas, the Ukrainian nuclear sector is even more dominated by Russia. And more strategic: it supplies half of the country’s electricity. And whereas Ukraine wants to use less gas, the government intends to expand the country’s nuclear power production significantly. The good news for Ukraine is that it has plenty of its own uranium. With Western support the country could make its nuclear sector emerge from the Russian shadow, writes Zuzanna Nowak of the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM).
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Due to the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, the safety of the Ukrainian nuclear reactors is a priority. The Ukrainian State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate (SNRI) sets increasingly higher safety standards, and attempts to comply with the requirements of international nuclear organisations (such as the IAEA, WENRA and ENSREG). The EU-model stress-tests have shown that safety measures implemented in the last 15 years in the Ukrainian nuclear blocks have greatly minimised the risk of core damage and emergency release of radioactive substances into the environment. In March 2013, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and Euratom, each granted a €300 million loan for the comprehensive modernisation of Ukrainian reactors by 2017. SNRI also maintains protection of the Ukrainian nuclear power plants against external threats and the risk of sabotage at a high level.
Although the Russian nuclear technology used in Ukraine necessitates the need for cooperation with Russia, Ukraine seeks to increase its control over the sector. This task is made easier by the fact that Ukraine possesses its own uranium resources, constituting approximately 2% of world reserves. Although the 225,000 tonnes of uranium (tU) located in 12 deposits would cover the total demand of Ukraine for the next 100 years, the current annual production (1,000 tU) allows Ukraine to meet only 30% of its domestic needs. According to SkhidGZK, Ukraine’s uranium mining and processing company, the goal is to achieve self-sufficiency and, in the longer term, export of uranium surpluses. But this will only be possible with increased funding for the domestic industry, the opening of the Ukrainian market for international investment, and cooperation with foreign companies.
In order to diversify the supply of fresh fuel derived so far exclusively from Russia (but prepared using Ukrainian uranium and zirconium), Energoatom started implementation of the Nuclear Fuel Qualification Project in 2007, assuming use of fuel from Westinghouse in three Ukrainian reactors. This Ukrainian–American cooperation prompted Russian company TVEL to propose in 2010 new, more favourable conditions for a long-term contract for the supply of fuel from Russia to Ukraine. Although TVEL also won the tender on a joint venture that aims to build a nuclear fuel production plant in Smolino, the new contract secures for Ukraine access to fuel manufacture technology. Such concern for Ukraine’s interests is an expression of a change in strategy towards Russia and the desire to make the nuclear industry independent.
Ukraine also seeks to reduce its dependence on Russia in the field of spent nuclear fuel management. Although Ukraine has two storage facilities for spent fuel (dry, at the Zaporozhye plant, and wet, at Chernobyl), the fuel from other power plants is exported to Russia. Therefore, Ukraine wants to invest in the long-term storage of spent fuel on its own territory. Thus Energoatom has, since 2005, been cooperating with the U.S. company Holtec International on a project to build a centralised spent fuel storage facility in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. It is expected that an integrated system of radioactive waste management will also be constructed.
Political problems and Ukraine’s growing debt may delay the modernisation of reactors and the implementation of some essential investments. Given that the security of the nuclear sector directly affects the security of neighbouring countries, the involvement of the European authorities and institutions in support of planned projects in Ukraine is of great importance. In comparison to other sectors of the Ukrainian energy industry, the nuclear industry is, due to strict supervision, less corrupt, which can help to ensure international control over how funds are spent. In addition, investment in the development of the Ukrainian fuel cycle can promote, in the long term, the diversification of nuclear fuel supplies to European VVER-type reactors (in, for example, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary).
The further development of nuclear energy in Ukraine will also have an impact on Poland. Due to the proximity of the power plant in Khmelnitsky, about 185 km from the Polish border, as well as the possible (re)construction of an interconnection between Khmelnitsky and Rzeszów connection, Poland may be able to import or transport Ukrainian electricity in future. Due to the technical conditions of the Polish energy system, Ukrainian electricity will not be competition for the planned Polish nuclear power plant, which is intended for the north of the country. At most, Ukrainian electricity could offer a serious alternative to electricity from emerging nuclear power plants in Kaliningrad and Belarus. Poland has urgent need for more power capacity. For Kyiv, the reconstruction of the Khmelnitsky–Rzeszów connection might be an incentive for a synchronisation of the Ukrainian national electricity system with that of the EU.
thanks Paveway IV and other ZHedgtards for being muppets. XOXO
"writes Zuzanna Nowak of the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)."
If you got and get junked, I would suggest the above might have much to do with being junked. A CIA operation of paid Poles is hardly considered news or anything but Washington DC SPAM.
so,
you just reject the content of the shadow players?
even if it's true?
You have to add ?page=2 before the #comment part of your link or it won't take anyone directly to your original post. It's a quirk of the board's software:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-26/60-prominent-germans-appeal-aga...
thank you kind sir
Reports radiation of 17 times normal. But where? At the reactor site, inside the building, 2 kilometeres from the site? What is meant by normal? Natural background radiation at that site, or normal with the reactor running?
Oddly enough, we don't have much for answers that mean anything. What would cause a radiation spike? Is this radioactive water release, steam, particulate matter?
This is a Soviet reactor, thus very old, and probably with no saftey inspections and minimal upkeep. Soviets were notorius for letting radiation and chemical pollution poison the Soviet people. The capitalists in the west always complained of Soviet like regulations on their business, when in fact, Soviets had no regulations, business in the form of state enterprises answered to no one, and pollution was dumped on site or anywhere the truck drivers felt like dropping it. Business in Soviet times was unregulated like any capitalist's best dream world.
Like the foreign backed overthrow of the Ukrainian government last February that was tailor made for a civil war that has already claimed thousands of lives -this is one more excuse for the Russian Federation to piggyback on as legitimacy for an invasion...
Nothing more nothing less than an act of war. The irony is if the U.S. is doing this deliberately to either blame Russia or antagonize them into starting something they may finally get their wish when the media starts reporting that key officials on those reactor site(s) have been removed from there jobs and replaced -but by whom?
Russia needs to point this event out to the UN and international nuclear regulatory commission as a serious breach of security and another war crime among many since the U.S. hijacked Ukraine's government last February. This is already all over the Eastern and now Western media with the experimentation of American made fuel rods which obviously aren't working out according to plan but we know it's always been about money for the U.S. and it's NATO friends so who cares if several million Europeans get radiation poisoning -just like Magna BSP's fine work in Fukushima Japan!
Why is Russia waiting for more sabotage they know the West is going to use to get them to launch an invasion into Eastern Ukraine?...
Let's get the party started! I want to see as many American and NATO military wiped off the planet as possible so that we can start over!!!
Radiation levels are normal background*
*for mars.
By Robert Hackwill
30/12 15:12 CET
In his recent annual address Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted anyone was free to enter politics in Russia. Well, tell that to Alexei Navalny, who in recent years has emerged as the opposition’s figurehead, and has been dragged through the courts for his pains.
The charismatic orator burst onto the scene in the 2011 legislative elections, railing against corruption and accusing Putin’s United Russia party of being a party of “thieves and swindlers”.
A Business Law graduate, Navalny began in the liberal Labloko party, but was thrown out for his nationalist positions. Specifically, he objected to immigration from the former Soviet republics, insisting Russia needed to get its house in order first.
He has ceaselessly tried to take on Putin at his own game, contesting his legitimacy as the defender of Russians’ best interests.
On his ‘Rospil’ website, along with his legal team, he hunts down and exposes corruption, dissecting accounts and government tenders, publishing incontrovertible proof of corruption, and naming names. While he is adored by many in the intelligencia and residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg, a November poll said 51% of Russians did not know who he was.
“I am involved in investigating corruption and in Russia this is a completely political activity. Corruption is the most important issue on today’s political agenda. I won’t dissemble and say I am dealing with corruption but not dealing with politics,” he says.
Such is the rigour of his investigations the Kremlin has found it hard to nail him. He combines classic political strategy with new methods, such as buying shares enabling him to attend shareholders’ meetings and call for more transparency in the semi-privatised gas and oil sector.
In 2013 Navalny stood in the Moscow municipal elections, winning 27.2% of the vote and second place. It confirmed his position as the leader of the opposition.
But that was a victory too far for the Kremlin, which forced him onto a new battlefield, the law courts. He was accused of stealing over 400,000 euros worth of timber whilst a councillor for the Kirov governor in 2009, and in 2013 was found guilty and sentenced to five years in a labour camp.
He was freed just 24 hours later as he was in mid-campaign for the Moscow mayor’s job, but he was ordered not to leave the capital.
Hackwill by name, hack well by nature.
I notice Mr Hackwell does nothing to refute the Russian state's allegations against the incorruptible Mr. Navalny.
http://izionist.org/eng/antisemic-reports/alexei-navalny-an-anti-corruption-blogger-who-raises-jewish-fears-in-moscow-for-his-antisemitic-remarks/
Sounds like a real nice guy.
Some fun questions to ring in the New Year!
Russia’s Vladimir Putin refers to himself as “Russia’s humble public servant.” This humble public servant’s net worth is:
a) Negligible – after all, he’s merely a humble public servant;
b) On a par with that of Russia’s oligarchs, who often are required to get clearance for important transactions from Mr. Putin himself;
c) Greater than that of most oligarchs, since approval by Mr. Putin for large transactions is a given, and naturally, “palms will need to be greased”; or
d) Quite modest, Mr. Putin preferring to be paid in bottles of Baltika No. 3.
For those that answered (b) or (c), a follow-up question:
Mr. Putin’s extraordinary wealth is the result of:
a) Blatant corruption and quid pro quo deal-making;
b) Skimming from the Russian treasury;
c) A night job working on the KaMAZ truck assembly line; or
d) Generous donations via Western Union from loyal Zero Hedgers.
I imagine he's like Queen Elizabeth - doesn't carry any money with him.
What would 'net worth' mean in this context, anyway? He'll probably die in office. Meanwhile, he lives in a palace, eats food fit for a king, has some of the best bodyguards in the world. If he needs/wants to go somewhere the State flies him there in a private jet. None of this stuff 'belongs' to him... but he still has use of it.
Who's manning Vlad's suicide watch tonight?
Who profits from a purposely caused event/disaster....
...and...WHO is downwind?
Hummmm...
Freaking evil dark corruption seeks to sink the whole ship before she gets broadsided by PX. Stupid does not know all hands on board will be needed to save the whole ship. Missing any more hands due to population reduction agendas will place in jeopardy the entire earth ship. All hands will be required to save it all thinking as one kinetic force of energy. All good hearts know it is an all or nothing adventure. There is no division in One Life force. One world's People. One Love.
If you have not heard these two hours of listening pleasure presented below, then you might should do it. IF, this is happening when they say it is, all the rest of the bantering, distractions deluxe, and jib-jab baloney suddenly all become moot. The focus of real quality life suddenly comes in to view.
Like really, who wants to haul around any amount of material things when it is known that it is the spirit world where one should build up the true richness of your karmic credit dept at, and not in the material one. It is well known that one can take the spiritual riches with them, but not the material things. Choose well between that which is temporary, and that which is eternal. There is NO ESCAPE from the well balanced scales.
Hr 2:
http://216.240.133.177/archives32/Hodges/2014/12/Hodges_2_122114_220000.mp3
Hr 3:
http://216.240.133.177/archives32/Hodges/2014/12/Hodges_3_122114_230000.mp3
Original link that has been disappeared for some reason on RBN, and on Hodges page. Moar hummmmmmmmm???????
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/12/27/stunning-interview-bob-flet...
Ya sees, ya has to see the first levels of consciousness (corruption and criminality) to know we are really in trouble as a world. But then, you has ta be a ready to embrace this biggest of all bits of info, be it true or not to SEE we are really really possibly in big huge deep doo-doo trouble beyond most peoples ability to even conceive. Unless it is on TV, of course. There have actually been many releases of information around this potential earth changing event that many already know is coming in various forms of media. Here is one great one.:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1307068/
Just where have all those trillions of dollars gone, Mr Rumsfield? Underground city hidey-holes for the elite, you say? See it through their controlling minds and ask yourself, what would you do to forestall this info from people while profiting from it? Heck, it could actually be yet another distraction from the impending well planned crash and babylonian takeover. Pitting all countries against each other to cause huge distractions from the criminality and corruption is such an old trick.
The world's People are sick and farking tired of the freaking shit show!
keep your eyes on your budgets, america, and eu. countries, who do you think is going to pay for ukraines remodeling, a refurbishment, and new infra-structure.