God the complete fucking prats who are trying to claim there is no possible danger whatsoever from the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant because of the dam collapse because 'it was already shut down months ago!’ and any claims about a possible nuclear disaster is just “””scaremongering””” just make me despair for the future of humanity. They are infuriating.
It’s like... they seriously seem to think nuclear power plants magically cease to become potentially dangerous just by flicking an off switch. Where did they get their information about this, from The Soviet Guide to Nuclear Power and How It Is All Perfectly Safe and Never Dangerous Unless Terrorists Attack or something?
No there is probably no immediate danger, all the sources I have seen on this are saying that including the IAEA. What is far more of an immediate danger for anyone and everything in that area is the more obvious dangers - drowning, of people and animals (and many thousands of animals at the very least have already drowned); death and sickness and contamination from pollution such as fuel and pesticides in the water; death and sickness from lack of drinking water and food, and water borne diseases especially when the area is full of dead animals and quite possibly dead people too now; destruction of property and infrastructure. Also the mines that have been dislodged and are floating downstream and could end up who the hell knows where. Plus of course then there's the absolute devastation of irreplaceable ecosystems and huge swathes of vital farmland which could have horrendous consequences for many years to come and yes in some ways realistically could be just as devastating or even more devastating than a nuclear meltdown.
But one of the reactors at the power plant was not in cold shutdown it is still in 'hot shutdown’, the entire thing was not turned off completely. And nuclear fuel doesn't just... stop. Even spent nuclear fuel takes years to cool down, with water, before it’s put into dry storage. And the worst thing is these people don't want to know that they're wrong, they don't listen to corrections, they don't care, either they are actively deliberately spreading lies like the pro-russian assholes or the douchebags who have let themselves be brainwashed by them or they're just basically proud of their stupidity and ignorance and think getting all their information from tiktok or whatever makes them well educated on every subject ever and they cannot possibly ever be wrong about anything.
I am sorry, for the Ukrainian people affected by this, on top of everything else they have had to endure, and for all the poor animals who have died and all those others that will inevitably die because of this latest act in a long long list of vile acts of terrorism and brutality by the Russian invaders. Rest in peace all those innocent souls. But if any of those Russian invaders have drowned because of the dam collapse then they can rot in hell.
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