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Ukraine government had to admit to nuclear accident at Zaporizhzhya power plant

Nuclear Accident In Ukraine: Largest Nuke Plant In Europe Shut Down, But ‘No Threat,’ Gov’t Claims, INQUISITR, 3 Dec 14  A nuclear accident at a power plant in Ukraine, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, shut the plant down last Friday, but the Ukraine government did not reveal the alarming mishap until Wednesday, claiming that the accident posed “no threat” to the public from radiation.

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 The Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which is also the fifth-largest nuclear plant in the world, consists of six nuclear reactors, the first of which went on line in 1985, with the sixth finally becoming operational 10 years later.

The nuclear plant is located just 120 miles from the war-torn eastern Ukraine region of Donetsk, a stronghold of pro-Russian separatist rebels who have battled the Ukraine government in heavy fighting for much of 2014.

Donetsk is the region where on July 17, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down by, it is widely believed, a rebel anti-aircraft missile, killing all 298 people on board.

Nuclear experts have raised the alarm that the power plant could be vulnerable to artillery fire from the war zone nearby………http://www.inquisitr.com/1652271/nuclear-accident-in-ukraine/

December 5, 2014 - Posted by | incidents, Ukraine

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  1. I am very surprised that Ms. McPherson felt it a duty to append such loaded political garbage regarding the “closeness” of the disputed areas of eastern Ukraine and the “possibility” of artillery fire, as if this had anything to do with the ‘incident”. Could this be further preparation of propaganda against “pro-Russian” separatists (even if they have received the cold shoulder from Putin regarding independence)? Are they now accused of shelling the power plant in order to cause…what?… their own immolation in radiation if the winds are just right? Artillery with a range of 120 miles is quite a stretch, unless the “Putin proxies” are still trying experiments with “Big Berthas” left over from WWII! And, evidence for the “widely believed” rebel shoot-down is hard to find, even from the US which had satellites surveying the territory. The Dutch would have touted such evidence a while back, had there been any. As for the power station, reports did come out of very high radiation leaks and some panic among the administrators, who would have mentioned being shelled had that been the reason for the “alarming mishap”. Really… such sloppy “fact checking” and politicized rumor passing is not the sign of a reporter, but more of a mouthpiece.

    proworks2013's avatar Comment by proworks2013 | January 5, 2015 | Reply


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