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Zelenskiy: Russia may be preparing to trigger nuclear plant explosion (www.theguardian.com)

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President cites Ukraine intelligence that Moscow has mined Zaporizhzhia nuclear station and sent away staff

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

No, there are a lot of ways to fuck shit up, but the main point of how these things are built is to make sure that the radiation stays inside.

A modern plant can have a full meltdown and not release anything outside the plant.

Three Mile Island comes to mind. It was a full melt down of one of the reactors (there were several reactors in the plant) and no radiation escaped the building.

The absolute worst case here would take actual knowledge of the plant's systems to bomb things at the right times in the right order to create a half-assed dirty bomb.

The more likely is another Three Mile Island style meltdown, but with added radiation hazards inside the plant itself.