Situation in the Chornobyl exclusion zone
Our experts have provided clarifications in order to deny the unreliable information that is currently spread in the internet concerning the seizure of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant and the takeover of a number of facilities in the Chornobyl exclusion zone.
Thus, radioactive waste and spent fuel management facilities located in the Chornobyl exclusion zone are protected from a number of threats. This protection is incorporated in their design.
The new spent nuclear fuel storage facility (ISF-2) complies with the strength requirements for maintaining its integrity in the event of an aircraft crash and air blast wave and can withstand tornadoes and impacts of tornado-induced rigid objects that are similar to those of missiles up to 200 mm. Noteworthy is that ISF-2 is designed so that it cannot be subjected to temperature effects of external fires. Even in the most severe case when the protective barriers are breached, the radiation effects of such an accident will not extend beyond the exclusion zone.
Also, according to the design, if fuel assemblies are damaged and fuel is released, the effective neutron multiplication factor in no way can be exceeded in either ISF-1 or ISF-2; in other words, a chain reaction cannot occur.
It should be noted that the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, currently occupied by Russian troops, is not a nuclear power plant in the conventional sense but a state specialized enterprise for the decommissioning of power units without nuclear fuel.
The exclusion zone territory is a planar source of radiation. Huge amounts of radioactive substances are unevenly distributed over it. Even without considering the radwaste and spent fuel management infrastructure, there are thousands of curies of radionuclides in the bottom sediments, soils and surface contamination of buildings and structures. For the three decades, the best Ukrainian experts have developed and operated a reliable system of rules and procedures for keeping radionuclides within the exclusion zone and controlling their migration, and what is happening now is its barbaric destruction.
The situation is becoming even more absurd because the “aliens” do not seem to realize that they themselves are the critical group that is most exposed to radiation. They have lifted a layer of contaminated soil and dust with heavy machinery and moved along the prohibited routes and thus caused deterioration of the radiological situation in the exclusion zone, which was recorded and transmitted by the automated radiation monitoring system before they damaged the Internet cable. The total activity in the exclusion zone has not changed and the radiological effects remained within its territory, except for radioactive contamination carried out with the military equipment.
Staying in the exclusion zone and obviously having no knowledge of how to ensure personal safety in radioactively contaminated territories, the invaders are exposed to substantial external and internal exposure to radiation. This will undoubtedly cause stochastic effects such as cancer. The ignorance and failure to realize hazards and the neglect of rules, treaties and conventions often lead to awkward suicide.
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