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Isn’t intentionally causing a nuclear meltdown during war already nuclear war?
No, it's not. We are arguing semantics.
Why isn’t it?
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Good lord, I love the understatedness of this comment.
The seem to be like £100 on amazon.
Yeah, but the fact that a Ukranian actually has one. I was going to make an "In Soviet Russia..." style joke, but a quick reading of the room suggested not good timing.
Re: Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe's largest
#304Stock futures plunged because of fears of a meltdown, I presume. For that to happen requires a specific chain of events, not just a fire at some non critical part of the plant. Nuclear power plants are designed to withstand a lot. Likely the plant was shutdown anyway. Now stock futures have recovered almost all losses, would have been a good buying opportunity based on this fear. Shows how having an knowledge advanta…
The reactor was under renovation, but fueled.
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#305Yes but nuclear power is the solution to all of the world's problems if we just ignore war, earthquakes, tsunamis, corporate greed and waste disposal!
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The risks of nuclear war from a NATO militarily intervention are far too high to even consider it. I’m sorry to say, but there is really nothing that could happen in Ukraine that would be bad enough for us to accept the risk of nuclear annihilation.
So any time a tin pot dictator wants to do whatever they want they just claim they'll use nukes and we let it ride?
That's the point of sanctions and shipping weapons to Ukraine.
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Russia signed a pact guaranteeing Ukrainian sovereignty in exchange for their portion of the Soviet nuclear stockpile [my misremembering, this was incorrect: and a large amount of money]. You can see how much signatures are worth with Putin.
> sovereignty in exchange for their portion of the Soviet nuclear stockpile and a large amount of money The money went the other way - "guarantee" of sovereignty plus financial compensation, in exchange for the nuclear weapons.
You’re right, thanks for correcting that.
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The seem to be like £100 on amazon.
Yeah, but the fact that a Ukranian actually has one. I was going to make an "In Soviet Russia..." style joke, but a quick reading of the room suggested not good timing.
Commenter literally said “far from Ukraine”. What are you talking about?
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#310So, aside from the obvious nature of messing around with Nuclear generating station being an idiotic move. From a tactical move for Russia - clearly they want the generating station offline to cause further chaos in Ukraine and that it supplies 1/6 of the power I believe(?). Was the generating station fighting to say online / not surrender or did Russia just show up guns blazing? It's clearly a tactically important s…
Isn’t one major problem with nuclear is that it’s hard to shut down when you don’t need it? Hopefully they understand that