Is Putin Playing With Nuclear Fire? Europe’s Largest Plant On The Brink Of Catastrophe | World News

KYIV (Ukraine): On October 2, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that Ukrainian attacks destroyed a high -voltage transmission line connecting to the regions managed by the Moscow -controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Days ago, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused the Russian bombardment of breaking the facility from the electricity network.

Zaporizhzhia, the six reactor giant, the largest in Europe, sits less than 10 kilometers from the front. It has been closed since 2022 and has not produced any of the electricity that once reached one -fifth of Ukraine’s needs.

Engineers who were dismissed by Moscow have tried to restart so far without being successful. Ukraine is afraid that Russia wants the station to supply the Crimea and other occupied areas. Putin said alleged Ukrainian strikes, diesel generators to continue to operate the plant, he said. It called it the longest war -time power deduction.

In a forum in St Petersburg, Putin said, “(Ukraine), if people play so dangerously, they should understand that they have a nuclear power plants working on their own sides,” he said.

Ukraine’s three operating stations, as well as a closure Chornobyl facility, the location of one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters.

The Russian President, “and prevents us from reflecting in response to this (the alleged actions of Ukraine), let them think about it,” he added.

Ukraine said Russia crusts the Chornobyl region and damages the reactor four sarcophagi. Both Chornobyl and Zaporizhzhia need electricity to ensure that cooling systems work. The nuclear fuel, which consists of thousands of uranium rods, constantly produces intensive heat and cannot be removed or transported safely.

In Chornobyl, it sits in the fuel cooling pools or ventilated facilities. In Zaporizhzhia, the rods are still new, warmer, and reactors in the United States. Before the war, Ukraine began to pass from the Russian rosatom hexagonal sticks to Westinghouse Square sticks. It would take years to cool down the USA safely.

Radioactivity is so strong that it cannot or can carry or use fuel until it burns the fuel. It will take years.

Cooling water is another difficulty. The plant is 15 kilometers from the Soviet Period Novo-Kakhovka Dam on the Dneieper River. The dam created a reservoir supplying the facility. In June 2023, the dam was destroyed in explosions. Ukraine and Russia exchanged the crime. Water levels fell. Deep cooling pools have never frozen before. Now it is sufficient for water closure reactors, but is not enough for restarting.

It is absolutely impossible to open a block. Of course, the Russians continue to dig and continue to provide some water, but experts are not enough.

The Ukrainian forces cannot connect the transmission lines, fuel warehouses and thermal stations to the energy network of the occupied regions of the Russian plant.

The Russians restore them in every way possible, but the Ukrainian forces prevents the restoration.

Norwegian -based nuclear monitor Bellona said that on October 2, Moscow’s crisis could use Zaporizhzhia to justify to re -connect to his grid. It would deteriorate this situation, provide Russia’s leverage and increase the risk of nuclear accidents.

Analysts stressed that US President Donald Trump proposed to transfer the facility to the US administration as a possible solution in March.

Ukrainian strikes will continue until a peace agreement containing control of Russia’s ZAES and operation, Opine, experts in the region.

The deductions in the Crimea have become irregular.

Moscow needs Zaporizhzhia to provide energy to occupied areas, and a kiiv analyst supports plans to occupy the seas of Zaporizhzhia and Azov.

Analyzing satellite images, Greenpeace said that on October 1, there was no evidence of Ukrainian strikes around Power Pylons. They said that the darkening was “a deliberate sabotage action by Russia to separate the plant from the grill of Ukraine and to connect to Russian occupied areas.