Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant under attack - 3D illustrated

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  • Опубліковано 6 бер 2022
  • Europe's largest Nuclear Power Station was shelled and seized by Russian forces. What damage was done in the shooting? What are the risks while the war is raging?
    The Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power station in Southern Ukraine is illustrated in 3D model. This plant produces 5.7 Giggawatts of power and represents 20% of Ukraine's electrical power.
    On the 4th of March during the Russian invasion of Ukraine the station came under Russian control and the control staff are now forced to work at gunpoint. A week later it was being controlled by Russian staff from Rosatom.
    The VVER reactor types at Zaporizhzhia have an excellent safety record and risk is very small of an accident. The reactor is house in an extremely robust containment structure which can withstand impact from a large aircraft. However a malicious military attack hitting the cooling systems or the spent fuel ponds pond could set off a radiation disaster. The nuclear waste stored on site is potentially vulnerable. So barring some intentional destruction the risks of a nuclear event are very low.
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  • @m80116
    @m80116 2 роки тому +7

    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.

    • @skeltek7487
      @skeltek7487 Рік тому

      Look a second time and compare to google maps. You will see the stray grenades came from around reactor block 3 (north/northwest) fired towards the russian tanks outside the main gate(south/southeast). If one looks closely, one can even see the glass lying inside the corridor, after the windows were penetrated, the projectiles hit the roof and detonated bending the pipes.
      Would you blame the return fire commited from outside the premises or the 'defenders' having taken firing positions on roofs and in front of the reactor cores? They could even had strapped babies to their stomachs to defend those too - wouldn't make much of a difference in argumentation.
      I recognized this a year ago after several days of research, but somehow no media picked up on it.

  • @OrlandoPla
    @OrlandoPla Рік тому

    Thanks for your video. I will be promoting it.

  • @victorbarinov
    @victorbarinov 2 роки тому +2

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

    • @Mike-Bell
      @Mike-Bell  2 роки тому +2

      The attack was a big risk. The reactor type has good safety record so the risk now is low. But if Russia go crazy and want to damage the plant the risk is high.

    • @francescozani9488
      @francescozani9488 2 роки тому +2

      The fact itself of a nuclear plant is in the hands of those animals is a huge risk.

    • @EK.K58
      @EK.K58 Рік тому

      @@francescozani9488 Who are you calling animals, you bastard???

  • @kurtgroat4927
    @kurtgroat4927 2 роки тому +4

    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.

    • @Mike-Bell
      @Mike-Bell  2 роки тому +4

      The VVER reactor has a really good safety record. So a meltdown is extremely unlikely. But in a malicious military strike its a different story.

  • @andreyverteletskiy8070
    @andreyverteletskiy8070 2 роки тому

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

  • @Muonium1
    @Muonium1 2 роки тому +6

    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.

    • @Mike-Bell
      @Mike-Bell  2 роки тому

      These VVER reactors have cooling systems which run passively. In other words the decay heat circulates the cooling water.
      Fukushima did not have passive cooling loops. Actually just unit 1 had a passive loop but it had a valve in the wrong position and the controllers did not know.
      It is very unlikely Zaporizhzhia will have a problem even in a station blackout. 2 of the reactors are in cold shutdown

    • @Muonium1
      @Muonium1 2 роки тому

      @@Mike-Bell assumes a bit too much, for me anyway. I mean for instance the FK reactors all had N2 inerting systems to prohibit H2 explosions in the event of meltdown, didn't they? the safety systems prevent disaster only if they...ya know....work.

    • @skeltek7487
      @skeltek7487 Рік тому

      The 'defenders' would not had taken firing positions in front of the reactor cores or the roof of the training facility if they really cared... The trajectory of the projectiles which penetrated the corridor were fired from the northwest, aiming towards the southeast, hitting the ceiling and detonating afterwards.
      But with the quality of the animation in this video, one does not even have to hint people to check out google maps to make that realization.
      The trajectory of the flares fired to illuminate the targeted tanks seen in other videos is also consistent with the direction coming from the reactor buildings.

    • @Muonium1
      @Muonium1 Рік тому

      @@skeltek7487 yes I'm sure it was all just a big ruse, your galaxy brain has doubtless cracked the case, Nancy Drew.

    • @skeltek7487
      @skeltek7487 Рік тому

      @@Muonium1 You just have to look at the video footage. But I guess you are not as good at comprehending physical trajectories and geometry of space as one could assume.
      The projectiles having inflicted the damage in the elevated corridor were fired from around reactor building #3 and were flying towards the south towards gate 1.
      One can even see the holes in the windows glass and glass shards lying inside the floor.
      The Windows were facing NORTHWEST.

  • @agency_editor
    @agency_editor 2 роки тому +3

    Where is Solid Snake when you need him 😅

  • @TheMrMikeo
    @TheMrMikeo 2 роки тому

    Great animation Mike

  • @shelleybell8729
    @shelleybell8729 2 роки тому +1

    Very interesting!

  • @usergiodmsilva1983PT
    @usergiodmsilva1983PT Рік тому

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

    • @Mike-Bell
      @Mike-Bell  Рік тому

      They are likely the service buildings for the spray cooling ponds. They sit between the reactors on the west and the spray ponds.

  • @skeltek7487
    @skeltek7487 Рік тому +1

    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.

    • @Mike-Bell
      @Mike-Bell  Рік тому

      Skeltek, please note next time someone attacks you in your own home don't fire at the attackers from your roof or anywhere else. Its ok if the attackers ignite your house but you must not fire on them. You might make them angry and that it is bad.

    • @skeltek7487
      @skeltek7487 Рік тому +1

      @@Mike-Bell Next time someone is beating up your cousin inside his appartment, would you just idly knock on the door?
      Such comparisons are as bad as putting a piece of artillery in the middle of a kindergarden playground, feigning an attempt of defending them.
      Nuclear power plants and civilian infrastructure are OFF LIMITS to combatants and military.
      You can argue all you want, the Geneva convention about war crimes make their point QUIET CLEAR.
      And covering up and supporting such behavior is collaboration on such war crimes.
      You may be safe in some western country to say whatever you want, but you need to live with your conscience of participating in some highly questionable conduct.
      And to get back to you 'qualitatively doubtful' example: If someone were to enter your home, you don not hide behind your wife, strap one of your children on your chest as a bulletproof west substitute and start shooting at the invaders, then later complaining they were returning fire in the direction of your wife.
      This could had been a global nuclear catastrophe, and you water down the argument by some weird analogies.

    • @Mike-Bell
      @Mike-Bell  Рік тому

      @@skeltek7487 Putin’s propaganda has made you delusional. You live in a parallel universe of dictatorship and brutality.

    • @Mike-Bell
      @Mike-Bell  Рік тому

      @Skeltek … besides Russian was birthed in Kiev and some cousins drifted off to Moscow and beyond. So Russia belongs to Kiev and not the other way round.
      You are conveniently forgetting your Kievan Rus history…😁

  • @advancetotabletop5328
    @advancetotabletop5328 Рік тому

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

  • @user-jm2fx8ze6r
    @user-jm2fx8ze6r 2 роки тому

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

    • @Mike-Bell
      @Mike-Bell  2 роки тому

      I am now making UA-cam videos fulltime 😊

  • @raven3041
    @raven3041 2 роки тому

    i like animation format of this channel
    Sub!

    • @Mike-Bell
      @Mike-Bell  2 роки тому

      Thanks. More to follow for happy viewers like you...

  • @sherlock4791
    @sherlock4791 2 роки тому

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

    • @Mike-Bell
      @Mike-Bell  2 роки тому

      The power station is under Russian control.

  • @dansaghin1
    @dansaghin1 2 роки тому

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

    • @Mike-Bell
      @Mike-Bell  2 роки тому

      Thankfully nothing happened

  • @Muonium1
    @Muonium1 2 роки тому

    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....

    • @Mike-Bell
      @Mike-Bell  2 роки тому

      UA-cam hid the bot comment. Actually it is blocking quite a few bot / troll comments more recently.

  • @haroldp8130
    @haroldp8130 2 роки тому

    pքɾօʍօʂʍ

  • @ussrbolshevichka2430
    @ussrbolshevichka2430 Рік тому +1

    Когда украина бывшая уберётся из ДНЕПРОСТАЛИНСКА- ЗАПОРОЖЬЯ ТОГДА АЭС БУДЕТ В БЕЗОПАСНОСТИ А МАЙКУ Я СОВЕТУЮ ПОЧИТАТЬ КТО СТРОИЛ АЭС И КАКАЯ СТРАНА И НА ЭТОМ ТОЧКА.

    • @Mike-Bell
      @Mike-Bell  Рік тому +1

      Вот идея получше. Украина возвращает свои ядерные боеголовки, которые Россия получила в 91-м
      Here is a better idea. Ukraine gets back its nuclear warheads Russia got in '91👍💥

    • @Mike-Bell
      @Mike-Bell  Рік тому

      Вы застряли в прошлом. еще не 1991 год

    • @ussrbolshevichka2430
      @ussrbolshevichka2430 Рік тому

      @@Mike-Bell нет я оппрпдил время я в СССР2.0

    • @ussrbolshevichka2430
      @ussrbolshevichka2430 Рік тому

      @@Mike-Bell украине я бы недоверил даже рогатку. УКРАИНА НЕАДЕКВАТНАЯ И ОПАСНАЯ СТРАНА ПОСЛЕ США И МЕЛКОЙ БРИТАНИИ.

    • @Mike-Bell
      @Mike-Bell  Рік тому +3

      @@ussrbolshevichka2430 Когда Путин проиграет свою дурацкую войну, Россия окажется никому не нужной. Россия - всего лишь продавец нефти, и у нее нет других отраслей, кроме водки. Даже российская военная техника, зарекомендовавшая себя в условиях реальной войны как хлам. После того, как Путина побьет маленькая Украина, мир перестанет покупать дрянную российскую военную технику. Россия ничего не продаст и сойдет на нет. И они больше не могут продавать газ. Путин уничтожает Россию, а вы не видите, что это происходит, или вам все равно. Вас ослепляет какая-то слава старой России. У России есть друзья только в Северной Корее и Иране. Так грустно. У Украины есть друзья по всему миру. Украина никогда не перестанет воевать. Русская армия убегает, потому что Путин не дает им даже теплую одежду или еду.