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The current situation at Zaporizhzhia
While the situation at Chornobyl remains precarious, given the absence of shift changes and the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine’s (SNRIU) total loss of contact with the staff there, the situation at Zaporizhzhia seems a little more transparent, although fraught with risk. As the SNRIU points out, the presence of ROSATOM personnel there is…
Read MoreThe current situation at Chornobyl
March 16 update from The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine The SNRIU continues informing on the state of the Chornobyl NPP. Until now, all Chornobyl NPP facilities, and facilities located in the Exclusion Zone are under the control of the aggressor country’s military. At present, the regulatory control over the state of nuclear and…
Read MoreAttack on Zaporizhzhia was far closer to disaster
A video analysis of unfolding events at the Zaporizhzhia reactors in Ukraine show disaster was much closer than had been originally reported. NPR reviewed over four hours of video footage along with photographs, which revealed Russian troops repeatedly fired heavy weapons in the direction of the massive reactor buildings, shredding the administrative building. A shell…
Read MoreNuclear power in the crosshairs of war
Ecoaction, an environmental NGO in Ukraine, and the European Chernobyl Foundation, hosted a briefing Thursday, March 10, updating the nuclear status of Ukraine — highlighting physical safety problems, and grave staffing concerns these facilities. Experts raised the dangers caused by mistreatment of staff such as lack of food, rest, and heat, inability to obtain needed…
Read MorePower severed to Chernobyl, threatening irradiated fuel pools
Fighting around the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power facility has severed a power line used to supply power to the two on-site irradiated fuel pools that house 20,000 capsules of radioactive waste. This waste is not just used and highly-radioactive fuel, but also ruined and radioactive material from the exploded reactor that melted down in 1986.…
Read MoreChernobyl: From radioactive exclusion zone to war zone
Radiation and wildlife expert, Timothy Mousseau, Professor of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, has studied radiation’s impact in wild areas for decades. He enumerates what can go wrong when a site that “is among the most radioactively contaminated regions on the planet” becomes a war zone. In his article for The Conversation, he states…
Read MoreClose call at Zaporizhzhia
The fire at the six-reactor Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on March 4 prompted chilling warnings from Ukraine’s president and foreign minister of a nuclear disaster “10 times worse than Chornobyl” and “the end of Europe”. Ukraine’s nuclear regulator reports that Russian forces are in control of the plant but no radiation has been released. The…
Read MoreUpdate from Ukraine’s nuclear regulator
This is the verbatim transcript from the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine as of March 4, 2022. On 4 March 2022, the military forces of the Russian Federation committed shelling the Zaporizhzhia NPP site, as a result of which a fire broke out on the ZNPP site. The fire was extinguished by the Ukrainian…
Read MoreGermany’s green goals on track
Despite claims that dependance on Russian gas derails Germany’s energy revolution, the country will instead ramp up renewables While the pro-nuclear lobby crows that Germany must now extend the life of its remaining nuclear power plants and will need to expand its use of coal as access to Russian gas gets cut off, the country…
Read MoreNuclear industry begs White House to keep Russia uranium coming
Major energy companies such as BP, Shell and Exxon Mobile, as well as some of the world’s largest corporations including Apple, Disney, Adidas, Warner Brothers and General Motors are in the process of cutting their business ties with Russia. The move comes in protest at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But the US nuclear power industry…
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