6 to 500 megawatts, he said.Īnd the head of the Ukrainian company operating the plant said all but one power line connecting it to Ukraine’s energy system had been destroyed. Fire teams extinguished flames, and the plant’s personnel lowered the output of reactors No. Igor Konashenkov said the attack Sunday caused a power surge and smoke, triggering an emergency shutdown.

“Although it may seem worrying, and any fighting on a nuclear site would be illegal according to international law, the likelihood of a serious nuclear release is still small,” he said. He also said the complex's spent fuel tanks, where the shells reportedly hit, are strong and probably don't contain much spent fuel. “As such, I do not believe there would be a high probably of a breach of the containment building, even if it was accidently struck by an explosive shell, and even less likely the reactor itself could be damaged,” said Mark Wenman at the college's Nuclear Energy Futures. One expert in nuclear materials at Imperial College London said the reactor at Zaporizhzhia is modern and housed inside a heavily reinforced steel-and-concrete building designed to protect against disasters. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres voiced support for that idea Monday, saying, 'any attack to a nuclear plant is a suicidal thing.” Its director-general, Rafael Grossi, told The Associated Press last week that the situation surrounding the Zaporizhzhia plant “is completely out of control,” and issued an urgent plea to Russia and Ukraine to allow experts to visit the complex to stabilize the situation and avoid a nuclear accident. Ukraine's ombudsman, Dmytro Lubinets, likewise urged that the United Nations, the IAEA and the international community send a delegation to “completely demilitarize the territory” and provide security guarantees to plant employees and the city where the plant is based, Enerhodar. Yusov called on Russia to 'make a goodwill gesture and hand over control of the plant to an international commission and the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), if not to the Ukrainian military.” Previously, Ukrainian officials have said Russia is launching attacks from the plant and using Ukrainian workers there as human shields. Ukraine's military intelligence spokesman, Andriy Yusov, countered that Russian forces have planted explosives at the plant to head off an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive in the region. “It’s fraught with catastrophic consequences for vast territories, for the entire Europe.”

YOU ARE BANNED IN BOSTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FTR, rebuttals from those whom I oppose (and vilify) would be very welcome.“Shelling of the territory of the nuclear plant by the Ukrainian armed forces is highly dangerous,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. As a LIFELONG Resident of the Boston Region and former inner resident City while growing up, I for one would like to see the anti-development, anti-modernist Boston cadre UP AND LEAVE THIS CITY and shuffle off to BOLTON, MA. Count me in as one who harbors severe doubts about this project getting approved because of the aforementioned TRADITIONALIST ZEALOTS who believe Boston should be maintained as a SLEEPY, BACKWATER, Urban Museum eschewing ANYTHING MODERN and/or ANY Structure taller than a ridiculous 55 FT in height. Still, knowing that Boston harbors a small but highly vocal and vociferous cadre of ULTRA TRADITIONALIST ZEALOTS who will more than likely scream BLOODY MURDER about the HEIGHT (OMG, 205 FT - IN BOSTON?) and modern glass curtain wall architectural presentation of the building. The latest design iteration evinces a beautiful building which does not overpower the general massing/architectural 'sense' of the very nearby historic Dock Square buildings immediately adjacent.

Dock it boston