Just a note:
When you hear "Cooling Leak" in a nuclear power plant. This could mean many things. Most of them benign. Some slightly dangerous, and rarely highly dangerous.
The bad news is that if it has to do with the spent fuel storage pool. This could be very bad news. But only locally, unless it flows into the river.
The main reactor is cooled by closed loop, inside the containment dome, and very hard to get to leak.
Well, the reports i saw was that there was fighting in the area and that pipes feeding cooling water into and from the reactor were leaking, and the only video for this was a car splashing thru water on a non-descript road that i can't geo locate
So the way this works, is that inside the containment dome there is a heat exchanger. Cold water flows through this, and that could be what is leaking. But at NO time does this cooling water touch radioactive material or become radioactive.
The other side of the heat exchanger is where the bad stuff is. and it is hardened.
You clearly know more about nukes than I do,... but as far as i know, if you stop the incoming water from getting to the reactor,... its a bad thing
Yes. Bad. But not fatal.
Actually you can shut the reactor down using control rods.
This lowers the heat load very significantly.
So very little cooling is needed.
In this plant this is automatic and requires no electricity or electronics. The rods just fall. it is a fail safe.
With due respect to your knowledge
I have ZERO confidence in Soviet era Nuclear power plants after Chernobyl
As well you should.
I do not want to diminish the severity of this. It is bad news to fight a war in a nuclear power plant.
@corlin @WeThePeople There reasons to be concerned, but also keep in mind the staff was doing experiments that pushed past the design limits of the reactor at Chernobyl.
@buzzkill58 @WeThePeople
Yep.
The word "Chernobyl" should never be used in this context....
Chernobyl was a cluster fuck, in about a dozen ways.
Has NO meaning here.