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Ukraine gov: Russian occupation forces are trying to seize the Chenobyl nuclear power plant site - February 24, 2022
Ukraine gov: Russian occupation forces are trying to seize the Chenobyl nuclear power plant site - February 24, 2022
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Russian occupation forces are trying to seize the #Chornobyl_NPP. Our defenders are giving their lives so that the tragedy of 1986 will not be repeated. Reported this to @SwedishPM
. This is a declaration of war against the whole of Europe. 9:00 AM · Feb 24, 2022·Twitter for iPhone
Fighting between Russian forces and Ukraine has now reached Chernobyl, as the country's president and interior minister have warned of the dangers of artillery fire striking nuclear waste storage facilities.
Interior minister Anton Herashchenko took to social media to warn against fighting in the area and the dangers of artillery fire in the area where there is "unsafe nuclear radioactive waste."
"The invaders from the territory of Belarus have moved into the [Chernobyl exclusion] zone," he wrote on his Facebook page.
"The national guardsmen, who guard the collectors of unsafe nuclear radioactive waste, are fighting hard. ...
Hanna Liubakova @HannaLiubakova
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Russian troops from #Belarus entered the Chernobyl zone. Heavy fights between them and Ukrainian soldiers guarding the storage of radioactive waste. We don't know about the fallout yet. But this is an absolute madness
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Russian troops captured the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Station personnel has been reportedly taken hostage 11:02 AM · Feb 24, 2022·Twitter Web App
I think a nuclear weapon exchange is much more worrisome than the ongoing threat from Chernobyl. Main issue there is preventing non-state actors getting a hold of waste.
"...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party
(My posts are not intended as advice or professional assessments of any kind.) Never forget Excalibur.
Find out the exact level of the radiation in your city of Ukraine. Online data from more than 500 stations. Updating data hourly
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Dmitri Alperovitch RetweetedWithUkraine@With__Ukraine
⚠️ An increase in the measures of an equivalent dose of gamma radiation has been registered at the monitoring posts of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. This was caused by the movement of Russian heavy machinery on the territory contaminated with radionuclides.
The White House criticized Russia in response to what it called credible reports that Russian soldiers are holding staff hostage at the Chernobyl nuclear site.
“We are outraged by credible reports that Russian soldiers are currently holding the staff of the Chernobyl facilities hostage," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.
"This unlawful and dangerous hostage taking, which could upend the routine civil service efforts required to maintain and protect the nuclear waste facilities, is obviously incredibly alarming and deeply concerning. We condemn it and request their release," she said.
The U.N. atomic agency said Friday that radiation levels at the Chernobyl nuclear site posed no risk to the public despite reports that they had risen in recent hours.
In a statement, the International Atomic Energy Agency said the radiation measures are “low and remain within the operational range measured in the Exclusion Zone since it was established, and therefore do not pose any danger to the public.”
The agency said Ukraine’s regulatory agency reported that the higher measurements may have been caused by heavy military vehicles stirring up soil still contaminated from the 1986 accident, one of the worst ever nuclear incidents.
... In Friday’s statement, the IAEA also said Ukraine has told the U.N. atomic agency its nuclear power reactors are continuing to operate safely and securely.
To minimize the casualties among the civilian population, save the lives of innocent 🇺🇦 children and women and to save the world from a new nuclear catastrophe, we urge @NATO & #EU to close the sky over #Kyiv and the #Chornobyl Exclusion Zone.
NATO Parliamentary Assembly / ... 6:52 AM · Feb 25, 2022
Address of Speaker of the Parliament Ruslan Stefanchuk to the parliaments and governments of the world on the full-scale aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine
... Under risk is now the Chornobyl nuclear power plant captured by the enemy. By their actions, the occupiers may cause an environmental man-made disaster as they have fought on the territory of the Shelter Installation. ...
Russian forces seized control of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. While some offer measured responses concerning the potential for human and ecological disaster, others express alarm, including the Chernobyl’s former Exclusion Zone head who spoke with the Bulletin.
Update 7 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine
MAR 2 2022
Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today that the same staff had been working at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) since Russian forces last week took control of the site of the 1986 nuclear accident, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said, expressing his growing concern about their continued wellbeing and ability to do their jobs safely and effectively.
In a regular update to the IAEA, the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU) said it maintained communications with the Chornobyl site – whose personnel it said were carrying out their duties under “supervision” – and that no operation involving nuclear material had been conducted there since 24 February.
... The Chornobyl NPP, located in an Exclusion Zone, has been undergoing decommissioning since the accident and significant amounts of nuclear material remain in various facilities at the site in the form of spent fuel and other radioactive waste.
“It is of utmost importance that the staff working at the Specialized Enterprise Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant are able to do their job safely and effectively, and that their personal wellbeing is guaranteed by those who have taken control,” Director General Grossi told the IAEA Board of Governors during a meeting in Vienna today on the situation in Ukraine.
Operating staff at all of Ukraine’s nuclear facilities – which also include 15 operational reactors at four sites – must be able to fulfil their safety and security duties and have the capacity to make decisions free of undue pressure, he added.
IAEA Member States feed information from automated radiation monitoring stations directly into the IAEA International Radiation Monitoring Information System (IRMIS). The IAEA on 1 March lost contact with such stations at the Zaporizhzhia NPP, the largest of Ukraine’s nuclear sites with six out of its 15 reactors, and today stopped receiving the same kind of data from another plant, the South Ukrainian NPP, with three units.
However, SNRIU later informed the IAEA that contact with the monitoring stations at the South Ukrainian NPP had been restored, saying the temporary loss of transmission to the IAEA was due to technical reasons and not related to military operations. Ukrainian specialists were seeking to determine the cause of the lost data transfer from the Zaporizhzhia NPP and to restore it, SNRIU added. ...
IAEA Director General Grossi’s Initiative to Travel to Ukraine
MAR 4 2022
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi today announced his readiness to travel to the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) to secure the commitment to the safety and security of all Ukraine’s nuclear power plants from the parties of the conflict in the country.
The Director General outlined seven indispensable pillars of nuclear safety and security at a meeting of the IAEA’s Board of Governors on 2 March, convened to address the safety, security and safeguards implications of the situation in Ukraine. Today he warned that several of them had already been put at risk during events overnight at the Zaporizhhzhya NPP, Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant.
The Seven Pillars are:
The physical integrity of the facilities – whether it is the reactors, fuel ponds, or radioactive waste stores – must be maintained;
All safety and security systems and equipment must be fully functional at all times;
The operating staff must be able to fulfil their safety and security duties and have the capacity to make decisions free of undue pressure;
There must be secure off-site power supply from the grid for all nuclear sites;
There must be uninterrupted logistical supply chains and transportation to and from the sites;
There must be effective on-site and off-site radiation monitoring systems and emergency preparedness and response measures; and
There must be reliable communications with the regulator and others.
... The IAEA is the international, authoritative technical nuclear agency capable of providing the adequate technical assistance to help ensure the safe and secure operation of nuclear facilities, he said.
But in these conditions, the Director General said the Agency needed a commitment from every actor so that it could provide such technical assistance in Ukraine.
“The logistics for this trip will be difficult, but not impossible. What we require is a commitment that allows us to provide this technical assistance,” he said, adding that he was consulting with others on making this come about. ...
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