If Putin blasts the Zaporhizhia nuclear power plant to bits, by bombing it, what will end up happening isn't going to be a meltdown, because the bombs will disperse the critical mass - it will kill any fission reaction. Radioactive materials may be dispersed across a rather limited area - uranium is a remarkably dense heavy metal, and if there's any plutonium around, that will be troublesome. But there won't be a radioactive mushroom cloud. The chief danger will come if there's spent fuel on site, and the circulation of cooling water stops, and that might cook off a fire. On the other hand, if that stuff gets bombed too, then the resultant fragments may not be large enough to cause a fire...
A real mess indeed with an awful cleaning job, but not likely a runaway meltdown. Is that reactor design secure from runaway? The Japanese might do well with cleaning robots.
I don't see any soft landing for Putin. Appears that his ability to continue is eroded by constant materiel losses and sanctions limited production capability. Unclear about supply line disruption deeper into Russia. The US is quite afraid that Ukraine will do what it must to stop fires from the border.
If Putin blasts the Zaporhizhia nuclear power plant to bits, by bombing it, what will end up happening isn't going to be a meltdown, because the bombs will disperse the critical mass - it will kill any fission reaction. Radioactive materials may be dispersed across a rather limited area - uranium is a remarkably dense heavy metal, and if there's any plutonium around, that will be troublesome. But there won't be a radioactive mushroom cloud. The chief danger will come if there's spent fuel on site, and the circulation of cooling water stops, and that might cook off a fire. On the other hand, if that stuff gets bombed too, then the resultant fragments may not be large enough to cause a fire...
A real mess indeed with an awful cleaning job, but not likely a runaway meltdown. Is that reactor design secure from runaway? The Japanese might do well with cleaning robots.
I don't see any soft landing for Putin. Appears that his ability to continue is eroded by constant materiel losses and sanctions limited production capability. Unclear about supply line disruption deeper into Russia. The US is quite afraid that Ukraine will do what it must to stop fires from the border.