The thing is, Russia is trying to blame a possible blow up on the Ukrainians. That is their motivation to set it off instead of sprinkling nuclear waste or usin

The thing is, Russia is trying to blame a possible blow up on the Ukrainians. That is their motivation to set it off instead of sprinkling nuclear waste or using nuclear war heads. Never mind all the damage they created around Chernobyl, though mostly contaminating their own troups by camping and digging in the highly contaminated forests around the former power plant. They also destroyed a lot of scientific labs which were controlling the power plant. By the way: Medvedjev made some pretty specific threads against German power plants.