There have been a few scares about #shelling in #ukraine against the #chernobyl #nuclear #reactor , but the lack of #electricity to the #cooling #system is by far the largest #risk so far: https://www.axios.com/ukraine-chernobyl-.. The #iaea have #claimed that there is no immediate #issue here, but they have just 48 hours of #diesel #generators and all of the #monitoring has been non-working during this time.
Interesting, it looks like it could kick off with #chernobyl https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/.. It's #wet #soil and they are now seeing increasing #radiation in that area, 30x #nominal levels... It's entirely possible that the #enclosing #structure of the #reactor has been #damaged with the fighting in the area. There are claims it is just #dust - in any case, not the sort of dust you want to breath in.
Interesting - #china is about to test a #thorium #reactor https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-0.. Thorium is a bi-product of #rareearth #metal #mining ... This could be part of am effort to #decentralize away from #imported #uranium - potentially another sign that the #ccp plans to start a #war that could lead to it being #isolated ...