Thanks for your video. I will be promoting it.

Your videos are full of interesting insights of the mechanics and technics of the subjects you address. I superficially watched the video of the shelling aftermath and I didn't even identify the exterior wall of reactor building #2 or... the open enclosure of nuclear waste. Eerily scary stuff.

i saw translation from station camera, closest point where was tanks was in 100m from 1 reactor(was closed) and 250m from 2 reactor.

Thank you for the animation! The video description is a bit confusing though. Was this incident a big risk or not?

Beautiful animation. You do good work. Ukraine doesn't have any operational graphite moderated/water cooled reactors in service similar to Chernobyl. This means that although there is a possibility of a meltdown, a situation like Chernobyl with a core fire coupled with a runaway chain reaction is not likely. Think Fukushima, not Chernobyl.

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Great animation Mike

Superb rendering showing much clearer overview of what happened than on the original videos. I watched it as it happened on the live stream, stunned and horrified. There is absolutely no precident for anything like this at any time in history. The only things that come close to it are the anti-nuclear activist RPG attack on the French Superphenix reactor in '82, and the Israeli attacks on Osirak in '81 and the Syrian reactor in '07, but NONE OF THOSE REACTORS WERE FUELED OR OPERATING! None of them had gone critical and there was no radioactive material on site anywhere, so there was no nuclear or contamination risk at all in any of them. This is totally different! Had that shell landed not on a conduit hall, but a few hundred feet away on the reactor itself, a catastrophic LOCA could have easily resulted. Absolute insanity. I'm not nearly as worried about the dry cask storage though, the decay heat should be low enough by now to be far below any autoignition temperature for the zirconium cladding, for instance. The far bigger risk is the fact that they need the reactors on because they've cut off their grid from Russia and the decay heat in a just-SCRAMed core is going to be enormous. It won't be another Chernobyl, but it certainly could be another Fukushima.

Anyone know what the buildings behind reactors 2/3 and 6 are for? Building behind reactor 2 is the one damaged this week.

Very interesting!

Sorry, in the original webcam footage recorded from the main administration building facing south, one can clearly see the russians were in front of the main gate outside the NPPs premises. They got shot at by heavy ANTI TANK WEAPONS from the training facility. A FLARE was fired from around the eastern area of the reactor buildings towards the parking lot to illuminate the targeted russian tanks. The damage in the elevated walkway was caused by stray grenades, which penetrated the northwestern windows (see glas lying on floor inside) hitting the roof and detonating inside the corridor. Even the center of the blasts can be easily deducted by the way the pipes were bent. The projectiles were clearly fired FROM IN FRONT of the reactor core buildings towards the southeast (where the russians tanks were located). I don't get how anyone can blame the russians in front of the main gate, while the 'undefended' ukrainian side had taken firing positions on roofs and in front of the reactor core buildings, then blame the russians for the 'unprovoked' return fire. Anyone having seen the original footage knows the russian tanks were fired at from within the NPP grounds. NPP premises should be OFF LIMITS to combatants. And there were enough good positions and covered locations outside the premises where they could had intercepted the russian tanks. But they carelessly risked a global nuclear catastrophe for cheap media coverage.

See also BigThink’s “ Science explains why an explosion at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is unlikely

i like animation format of this channel Sub!

I thought you go away from youtube, but no, you doing video for us, thank you🥰🥰🥰

So is it on russia's hands now or still at ukraine's

fyi, youtube's 1984 bot has memory-holed your response to my comment, thus I know there is one from the notification, but no one can read it. really coming to genuinely hate the management of this site....

but nothing bad happened, no radiation was spilled or got away in the surroundings...

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