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Chernobyl protective shield can no longer confine radiation after drone strike
- Molitor5901 11mo agoThis is deeply worrisome and brings to mind when Russia attacked Chernobyl, and then their soldiers got radiation poison digging latrine trenches etc. Let us dangerously hypothesize that if Confinement begins to fail catastrophically, who will step in to fix it? Russia? Is it.. possible Russia will allow the leak as a form of weapon?
- tguvot 11mo agoThere is a hole. iirc it was somewhat patched with more temporary repairs next year. radiation levels are normal
- cheschire 11mo ago> radiation levels are normal Yeah, only 3.6 roentgen
- manyturtles 11mo agoNot great, not terrible.
- nick238 11mo agoI get that Chernobyl is near the border of two countries at war, but why the everloving hell is anyone targeting anything within miles of the exclusion zone? Are there any military units anywhere near there, or is it intentionally being targeted as an oblique dirty-bomb threat?
- rich_sasha 11mo agoThe whole Russian invasion is one massive exercise in contempt for human life, Ukrainian and Russian. So I don't think they would care about the hole.
- explodes 11mo agoThere are certainly very real humans deciding if this target gets hit or not and why.
- glitchcrab 11mo agoYou can be human and not care about other humans.
- yetihehe 11mo agoThat's even worse. They are humans who want to see more suffering. The famous quote from one Russian propagandist about Ukrainians dying: "I don't pity them at all". Me and you care and think that losses on both sides are atrocious. Russians don't care.
- roncesvalles 11mo agoWhen you're at war you just want to hurt the enemy; you're not thinking straight so to speak. It takes enormous professional restraint - both personal and organizational - to not say fuck it all and just press the nuclear launch button after a bad day on the ground.
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- palmotea 11mo ago> As the world’s largest movable land structure, the colossal hangar is a monumental feat of engineering. Built in 2010 and completed in 2019, it was designed to last 100 years and has played a crucial role in securing the site. With all that effort, it didn't last 6 years.
- impossiblefork 11mo agoThis would in itself be a reason for EU air forces to go in and participate in the destruction of Russian drones and cruise missiles. It is ridiculous that no decision at least on that minimal thing has been taken.
- lazide 11mo agoNukes.
- impossiblefork 11mo agoYou can't let nukes constrain you. It's like somebody pointing a gun at and saying "eat this horrible snail, or I'll shoot you", but there's the possibility that if you eat the snail, he'll shoot you anyway and then you'll die having eaten the snail. Therefore, as long as you have a second strike capability threats are irrelevant. Everybody who has a reasonable number of nukes can erase himself and his enemy. That is his business and he can do so independently of what we choose to do. Consequently it's something we can't care about.
- bathtub365 11mo agoSnails are quite tasty with garlic butter
- lazide 11mo agoEasy to do if you have a working set of balls, which clearly most of Europe and North America don’t anymore.
- kevin061 11mo agoThe dome is so much more than a dome. It is a whole work of engineering, from the way it was assembled and installed to the internal structure itself. It is built in two layers. The inner one deflects radiation and heat back into the core, in the middle there is a cooling layer, I believe they even use liquid cooling to ensure the temperature difference between the inner hot and the outer cold layers are not too drastic which could cause thermal expansion and damage. And then there is the outer layer, designed to withstand heavy winds and harsh climate conditions. Just piercing the outer layer would have damaged the coolant middle layer and ruined a large amount of engineering work that went into this structure. The dome was also literally built in such a way that it was assembled a few meters away and then slid over. There is no real practical way to fix the hole that appeared. There is no sufficiently tall ladder or sufficiently stable helicopter for this work. Especially in the middle of a war. Putin should be sent to The Hague for just this, but there are many more reasons too.