It will affect Europe too: a scientist about the risks of a catastrophe at the ZNPP

09 August 2022, 08:10 | Ukraine
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In the event of a possible accident at the occupied Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, which Russian terrorists are now threatening, not only the south of Ukraine, but also a number of other countries will fall into the affected area. Ivan Kovalets, Head of the Department of Mathematical Modeling of the Environment at the Institute for Problems of Mathematical Machines and Systems of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, published such a forecast on his Facebook..

He noted that more detailed information about what exactly is happening at the Zaporozhye NPP is available in Energoatom..

“As far as I understand, there is a threat of a blackout of the power unit and, accordingly, failure of the cooling system. This can lead to serious accidents.. I am not an expert in calculating the volume of emissions during accidents at nuclear power plants, but I am engaged in calculations of atmospheric propagation when the release occurred. But there are published emissions calculations made by the SSTC NRS for one of these scenarios,” wrote Ivan Kovalets.

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He explained that the script he published was just one of many possible. Everything will depend on where the wind blows on the day of a probable accident.. As an example, Ivan Kovalets took the weather conditions for July 27, when the wind was in the southwest direction. In this case, the cloud will cover not only the southern regions of Ukraine along with the Crimea, but also Bulgaria, Romania and the Black Sea, and even reach Turkey.

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Recall that the Russian occupation army resorts to nuclear terrorism - the Russian troops once again carried out rocket attacks on the site of the station and the city of Energodar. Missiles hit the Zaporizhzhya NPP site directly next to the station dry storage for spent nuclear fuel (SNF). The White House urged Russia on Monday to stop all military operations around nuclear facilities in Ukraine. And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Western allies to impose new sanctions against Russia for such acts of terror..




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