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Probably not a bad idea to put all your troops and equipment stockpiles near an area that just about everyone is going to be reluctant to bomb indiscriminately
by ejb999 5y ago
Probably not a bad idea to put all your troops and equipment stockpiles near an area that just about everyone is going to be reluctant to bomb indiscriminately - nobody wants to accidentally destroy that shell protecting that nuclear power plant I would imagine.
- swyx 5y agois this the same plant as the one from 1986? this plant is still active today? im very surprised.
- curtisblaine 5y agoNot active, but actively contained.
- rob74 5y agoactive as in radio-active...
- officeplant 5y agoThe other three reactors there were operational until 2000.
- kabdib 5y agoLooks like they removed the fuel in 2013. That's good. Huh, how often have nuclear reactors been in a theatre of war? Is this the first time?
- dredmorbius 5y agoNo, not the first. Israel bombed an Iraqi nuclear power plant in 1981. The plant had been completed but had not yet been fueled or gone critical (active). http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/7/newsid_3014000/3014623.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/7/news...
- ciex 5y agoWhen a nuclear power plant has a failure as catastrophic as that in Chernobyl it is active (radioactive) for a _very_ long time, with no way of shutting it down. The immediate site of the power plant will be uninhabitable for about 20,000 years, however, the wider area might become safe to live in in just a couple of hundred years. While radiation levels decrease in general, there have also been measurements of increasing radiation in 2021.
- rob74 5y agoUninhabitable for humans, but it's great for wildlife (who don't care if they get cancer later in life, or don't live long enough to get it). And no, AFAIK no three-eyed fish has been sighted yet...
- swyx 5y agointeresting, i wonder if we get any examples of accelerated mutation causing some new evolutionary adaptation we have never seen before
- sidewndr46 5y agoNo, the current structure is from 2018 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_New_Safe_Confinement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_New_Safe_Confinement
- ttyprintk 5y agoShelling it is a cheap way to spread radiation around the center of the country, like a dirty bomb.