{"id":129677,"date":"2024-04-16T09:20:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T06:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/is-europe-prepared-for-nuclear-catastrophe-at-zaporizhzhia\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T09:20:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T06:20:46","slug":"is-europe-prepared-for-nuclear-catastrophe-at-zaporizhzhia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/is-europe-prepared-for-nuclear-catastrophe-at-zaporizhzhia\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Europe prepared for nuclear catastrophe at Zaporizhzhia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129677\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nAttacks on Europe&#8217;s largest nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine remain worrying. In southeastern Ukraine lies the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station. Captured by Moscow soon after its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the plant has frequently been caught in the crossfire, becoming a continual source of worry for international observers. Some have even warned of nuclear disaster, similar to Chernobyl.<\/p>\n<p>The latest concerning incident saw a drone hit the plant in April, with both sides exchanging blame. Firing kamikaze drones at Zaporizhzhia is &#8220;a no-brainer&#8221;, former International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief nuclear inspector Robert E. Kelley tells Euronews. He adds &#8220;there&#8217;s really no possibility whatsoever that these things&#8221; could cause the plant to explode, however.<\/p>\n<p>The IAEA confirmed that it had not observed any structural damage after the last incident, on 7 April, although it strongly condemned the attack. &#8216;No chances&#8217; of Chernobyl scenario today. Some previous strikes on Zaporizhzhia have resulted in power outages. Technically, this is dangerous. Without power, nuclear reactors can&#8217;t be cooled down, overheat, and might explode &#8211; like at Chernobyl.<\/p>\n<p>But chances this could happen today &#8220;are essentially zero&#8221;, says Kelley. &#8220;Chernobyl&#8217;s reactor was suddenly turned to full power with all of this water in it, which turned to steam in a fraction of a second and just blew that building to pieces,&#8221; he explains. &#8220;The reactors that are built today are built to a totally different standard. Chernobyl-type reactors include tons of flammable graphite to control the nuclear reaction while Zaporizhzhia&#8217;s pressurized water reactor (PWR) does not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At Chernobyl, the graphite caught fire and spewed radioactive isotopes and ash into the atmosphere for days until the fire was put out. PWRs have no such flammability problem, a huge advantage. Water does not burn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Also, Chernobyl&#8217;s reactor was inside a large ordinary industrial building that was destroyed by a steam explosion and a massive fire. PWR (except for a very few older Russian reactors) are always built inside a massive concrete and steel dome designed to contain a steam explosion and to slow down any leaks of radioactive isotopes to the environment.&#8221; More factors seem to further reduce the risk compared to 1986.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/04\/16\/is-europe-prepared-for-nuclear-catastrophe-at-zaporizhzhia\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/04\/16\/is-europe-prepared-for-nuclear-catastrophe-at-zaporizhzhia\">Euronews World<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/is-europe-prepared-for-nuclear-catastrophe-at-zaporizhzhia\/\">Is Europe prepared for nuclear catastrophe at Zaporizhzhia<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[14179,606,607,608,5051],"class_list":["post-129677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-catasrophe","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien","tag-zaporizhzhia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}