“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”
JUN 25, 2024
FILE PHOTO: View shows Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
LLAW’s NUCLEAR ISSUES & COMMENTS, Monday, (06/24/2024)
What is happening at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in Ukraine during the Russian invasion is simply increasingly the suspense of waiting for a horrible nuclear “accident” that could threaten the lives of much of Ukraine and large areas of Europe. That is one issue that has been ongoing for more than two years and continues to grow more carelessly dangerous as time goes by until now it is at the critical issue point of no return. It is like Nero fiddling while Rome burns, but much, much, worse.
But the Russia/Ukraine war, with the USA and now NATO apparently supporting Ukraine, increasing the threats from Russia’s Putin and others, makes Ukraine a hotbed for the beginning of WWIII, and, if that happens, Armageddon happens. The leaders of nuclear armed nations all know this, but does their seemingly lack of apparent care mean if they cannot have it all, they will take the rest of humanity and other life with them to their final destinations?
This lying world, reeking of the stench of humanity’s hatred for one-another, filling every day to the putrid hilt of wishful but hopeless ‘deterrence’ of nuclear threats that they and we know cannot continue forever, so the answer to my question has two current answers only: 1) unite and remove ‘all things nuclear’ from the Earth’s environment forever, or 2) remain divided and use nuclear weapons, including nuclear power plants, to quickly create the 6th Extinction. ~llaw
IAEA urges halt to attacks on town near Ukrainian nuclear plant
Reuters
Sun 23 June 2024 at 3:47 pm GMT-7·2-min read
IAEA urges halt to attacks on town near Ukrainian nuclear plant
(Reuters) – The U.N.’s nuclear watchdog called on Sunday for a halt to attacks on Enerhodar, a town near the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station after drone strikes this week hit two electricity substations serving the area.
The plant’s Russian-installed officials accused Ukraine of staging two drone strikes that destroyed one substation, damaged another and cut power to residents for a time.
Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, made no reference to Ukraine and said the incidents had no affect on the Zaporizhzhia plant’s operations.
But he said the attacks had to stop.
“Whoever is behind this, it must stop. Drone usage against the plant and its vicinity is becoming increasingly more frequent,” Grossi said in a statement on the IAEA website.
“This is completely unacceptable and it runs counter to the safety pillars and concrete principles which have been accepted unanimously.”
Power had been cut to Enerhodar, a few kilometres from the plant, for 16 hours, he said. But neither of the attacks, which occurred on Wednesday and Friday, had any impact on the power lines that the nuclear plant uses to keep operating.
The Zaporizhzhia plant’s Russia-installed management said some “infrastructure facilities” including the transport department and print shop experienced disruptions, but that nuclear safety measures remained fully operational.
Ukrainian officials have made no comment on the incidents and Reuters could not independently confirm the reports.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the attacks exposed Ukraine’s disregard for nuclear safety.
Russian troops seized the Zaporizhzhia plant in the early days of the February 2022 invasion, and Moscow and Kyiv have since regularly accused each other of endangering safety around the facility. It produces no electricity at the moment.
The IAEA maintains inspectors at the station.
Russia launched mass attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure in the first winter of the conflict and resumed a long series of attacks in March. Kyiv says the renewed attacks have knocked out half of its energy-generating capacity.
(Reporting by Ron Popeski; Editing by Bill Berkrot)
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