Damn— Fire 🔥 reported at the nuclear ☢️ power plant in Zaporozhye Ukraine 🇺🇦— one of the largest nuclear power plants in the world (a top 10!). I was just talking to a colleague about this today🤦🏻♂️. Hope 🇷🇺 leaders realize shelling a nuclear plant is NOT in their own interest!
South Korea's government issued a natural disaster alert after a wildfire broke out near the Hanul Nuclear ☢️ Power Plant.
Yeah, what a week for nuclear power plants.
Good news is the largest nuclear power plant is back in Ukrainian control tonight after intense fighting and a fire yesterday. But hey, I’ll take any good news today.
3) My biggest concern in Ukraine nuclear ☢️ situation is not the reactors itself (unless water coolant is disrupted)… but it’s the storage site nearby of the radioactive spent nuclear waste fuel. Many experts have said these are vulnerable if targeted. 👇
Nota Bene—Iodine protects against thyroid cancer if nuclear ☢️ radiation fallout. Ukraine 🇺🇦 news now causing a rush for iodine again in Central & Eastern Europe, which were heavily affected by Chernobyl’s fallout decades ago with radiation and ⬆️ higher cancer rates afterwards.
2) “in the event of a nuclear accident” (these iodine packets were handed out decades ago).
3) to be clear, iodine *only* protects against thyroid cancer, not all cancers. Nor does iodine protect against other cellular damage from radiation. Don’t assume iodine as a protective shield against radiation ☢️ effects. businessinsider.com/europeans-pani…
BREAKING— the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (largest nuclear reactor in Europe) has now finally fallen to Russian military control. God help us. Hope cooler heads will prevail.
Earlier thoughts—
1) how dumb are we as a species to shell a nuclear plant?
2) Are other countries only going to intervene if a ☢️ accident happens?
3) Might Putin going for scorched Earth 🌍 nihilist strategy?
4) Don’t Russian leader know radiation would blow EAST?
3) My worry is not with the reactor. My worry is what shelling could do to the stored nuclear ☢️ waste nearby. These radioactive storage containers are tough but not impervious to bombings. Hope these are not breached in this war.
2) My colleagues and I have debated the nuclear ☢️ plant threat for a while. It’s one of those “if I push this button, we both get burned” threats. It does indiscriminate damage and something not easily contained if fallout. And that’s what makes it more dangerous.
3) the battle is still actively raging. I hope to god there is not direct damage to the reactor or to its cooling system or it’s water supply. These light water nuclear reactors are sensitive suckers.
INSANITY… dash cam captures Russian cluster bombs dropping dozens of projectiles onto a HOSPITAL 🏥 & civilian areas in 🇺🇦. Cluster bombs are NOT precision weapons - they are meant laying waste to entire areas. @nytimes verified video. This is WAR CRIME!
These Putin cluster bombs dropped onto RESIDENTIAL AREAS and HOSPITAL and PHARMACY!! nytimes.com/live/2022/03/0…
3) Dash camera video verified by The New York Times captures the bombardment on Thursday of a residential area in the center of Chernihiv, the key northern city along the path of Russia’s incursion into Ukraine toward Kyiv, the capital.
Why are we just begging to chase 1,000,000 deaths with our cavalier #COVID19 attitudes? Our @CDCDirector has failed us by gaslighting with misleading metrics to drop mitigations. So sad frankly.
Look how the data ends: same day “new green maps” released.
It’s malfeasance (and I don’t use that lightly) because it is not only using hospitalizations but it’s using it wrong. How is it wrong? Next slide please…