Atomic risk to Europe
I believe this is an existential threat to Europe, hard to quantify but real.
Zaporizhzhia atomic plant
Introduction video
UN International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cI1pY7E444
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JKoTpKj9RM
Dnipro River in Russian-occupied Ukraine
Europe's largest nuclear power station
Worker Serhii
Devastation, much of Europe, Russia, Mediterranean
The level of radioactive pollution, and most importantly the area of contamination, will be thousands of square kilometres of land and sea… it would be much, much worse than Fukushima and worse than Chernobyl.
Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, captured by Russian, March 2022
Shells and rocket hits
Russia targeting power lines
Seven power cuts since March 2022
Back-up generators, poor quality work force
11,000 staff now down to 3,500
Big leak could stop any southern Ukrainian counteroffensive
Level of military activity has increased
Worker Serhii
Ukrainian armed forces will not shell the station
Worker Mykola
Everyone has their own story. And I think the most important thing is not to get into their hands because it's unlikely you will get out and still be the human you were when you went in.
The International Atomic Energy Agency
Calling for area to be demilitarised immediately
Chernobyl 4 reactor 1986
https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/radiation-the-chernobyl-accident
29,400 km2 was contaminated above 180 kBq/m2
530,000 liquidators irradiated, 120 millisieverts (mSv)
Global average annual dose of 2.4 mSv natural background radiation
(UK 2.7 mSv)
https://www.greenfacts.org/en/chernobyl/toolboxes/half-life-radioisotopes.htm
Iodine -131 (8 days)
Caesium-137 (30 years)
Strontium-90 (29 years)
Plutonium-241 (14 years, 430 years)
Fissile uranium U-235 isotope (703 million years)
Potassium Iodide for Nuclear Radiation Emergencies
https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/potassium-iodide-radiation
You’ll take potassium iodide before or right after you’re exposed to radioactive iodine,
3 to 4 hours after won’t be as effective.
Take the medication once a day until the risk of radiation exposure no longer exists.
Most important
Pregnant or lactating women
Newborns
Children
Doses of potassium iodide
Adults, 130-milligram pill
12- 18, over 150 pounds, (68Kg) 130-milligram pill
12- 18, under 150 pounds, (68Kg) 65-milligram pill
3 to 12, one 65-milligram pill
Newborns to one month, 16.25 mg
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamins-and-minerals/iodine/
Adults need 140 micrograms (μg) of iodine a day.
Family protection
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nuclear-emergencies-information-for-the-public
Sheltering
Staying indoors with doors and windows closed,
degree of protection from breathing in radioactive material,
and dust / fall out
Evacuation
Stable iodine tablets
Food
Soil - grass – plants food chains
Milk or other foods
Eating contaminated food, build up over time
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