BREAKING NEWS: Trump ordered the nation’s independent nuclear regulatory commission to cut down on regulations and fast-track new licenses for reactors and power plants on Friday.

In unrelated news, the Russians did the same thing with Chernobyl.

It’s real, the Chernobyl humidifier: https://amzn.to/4khI3JQ

"Russian drone strike caused tens of millions worth of damage to #Chornobyl"

#Chernobyl #nuclear #NuclearPower

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/07/russian-drone-strike-caused-tens-of-millions-worth-of-damage-to-chornobyl

39 years ago, the world was rocked by an explosion that still resonates today. #Chernobyl. I was too young at the time to truly understand the magnitude of what happened. I'd like to think that the human race has learned and grown from this event, but then I look to my southern border and realize that humans forget and ignore the past with violent detest.

️On Chernobyl Disaster Anniversary, Repairing Russia’a War Crime Damaged Shield Poses 'Enormous Challenge' (More) http://www.rferl.org/a/33397012.html #Ukraine #Finland #Norway #Poland #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Moldova #Germany #Mastodon #France #Chernobyl #Nuclear #IAEA #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #Russia #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionOfUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState

https://youtube.com/watch?v=cMfgaqvSbck
A Chernobyl Hero speaks on 1986 Disaster and What the American HBO Series Got Wrong (Kyiv Post VIDEO) #Ukraine #Mastodon #OSCE #America #HBO #Chernobyl #Moldova #France #Germany #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Finland #Sweden #Norway #Denmark #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionOfUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState

Today is 39th anniversary of the #Chernobyl disaster, which happened on 26 April 1986 and which was all one huge testimony to the absolute stupidity of the Soviet system.

• The disaster had no random component (like Banqiao or Fukushima), it was 100% man-made.
• The test that led to the disaster was scheduled by the Communist Party approved Plan.
• In general, the Party-approved Plans were sacred, directors who did not deliver Plans were degraded and imprisoned for “sabotage” under Soviet penal code.
• Chernobyl directors knew about the technical faults of the reactor’s moderation equipment and they knew they increased chances of an accident Yet, the continued with the test because it was in the Plan.
• Plant management and local Party notables reaction to the explosion - denial and downplaying its impact - was also absolutely typical for the Soviet system.
• Local Party authorities initially refused population evacuation “not to sow panic” while waiting “what Moscow says”. But since they initially blocked information to Moscow “not to make Moscow angry” and “maybe the problem resolves itself”, Moscow’s analysis was thus decisive, but severely delayed.
• Ultimately all this endless and entirely preventable stupidity had to be mitigated by incredible sacrifice by thousands of people who have given their lives to put out the fire and secure the reactor, and did all that in the atmosphere of paranoia and secrecy.

We often complain about modern corporate incentives and greed leading to socially pathological outcomes. What Soviets did in Chernobyl was 100x worse, because in a modern corporation you may get less bonus or be fired, but not fulfilling corporate goals won’t get you jailed. #USSR at the same time create a merciless system of corporate terror, where your whole life - from your accommodation to your kid’s school - depended on your compliance with Party directives, regardless of how stupid they were.

Chernobyl: A Bomb That Keeps Ticking

After the 1986 Chernobyl explosion, scientist Allen Dobrovolsky was sent to assess the fallout. Three decades later, he finds poisons seeping into water affecting 35 million people. During the Ukraine war, Russian forces capture the plant, cut power, and worsen radiation, while Putin eyes nuclear plants as doomsday weapons.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27817705/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1

#documentary
#Chernobyl

Today it's exactly 39 ago that the #Chernobyl nuclear reactor melted down

The New Safe Confinement costed $2.1 billion euros to protect us

Because of the #war in #Ukraine by #Russia it's currently becoming more dangerous again, because of Russia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW4BEqDS_wM

Rockford-area lawmakers lead charge for more nuclear power in Illinois https://www.byteseu.com/941990/ #Byron #Chernobyl #clean #Energy #Illinois #Nuclear #plant #power #Pritzker #rockford #syverson #ThreeMileIsland #vella

A hole in protective shell over the Chernobyl reactor poses risks.

For weeks, the Ukrainian authorities have been looking for ways to repair a large hole in the protective shell that covers the fourth reactor of the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear plant. When it was erected in 2019, the giant shell was one of the biggest structures ever moved by humans.

On 14 February, a Russian drone hit the structure.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250329-a-hole-in-protective-shell-over-the-chernobyl-reactor-poses-risks?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

Consequences of #Russia attack on #Chernobyl confinement on 14 February 2025 go well beyond the hole caused “Geran-2” (“Shaheed-136”) explosion in the confinement roof. The insulation inside the roof smouldered for the last week and the temperature combined with snowfall on its surface caused the steel covering to rust. There’s also shrapnel damage to the other side of the wall. There’s no risk of radiation release as the purpose of the confinement is to provide long-term cover and prevent raising dust and leaching into the ground from rainfall, but this attack demonstrates ostensible disrespect of Russia to the safety of the remains of the disaster their Soviet forefathers have caused in a show of utter idiocy and disrespect to safety protocols.

Chornobyl Fires!

Three more smoldering fires have been detected at the shelter of the Chornobyl NPP, the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management reported.

"Work on fire suppression has been resumed: three smoldering points have been found," the agency wrote.

It is specified that the insulation layer of the shelter roof is smoldering. The consequences of the drone strike are being eliminated by three groups, including two teams of climbers.
#AureFreePress #Chernobyl

#WarInUkraine
#ЧАЕС
#ЧорнобильськаАЕС
#Чорнобиль
#ЧорнобильськаКатастрофа
#Chernobyl

На ЧАЕС все ще тліють пожежі після удару безпілотника в п'ятницю по саркофагу, — МАГАТЕ

Групі МАГАТЕ, яка перебувала на місці вибуху, надано необмежений доступ до місця вибуху, і вона провела широке обстеження, щоб оцінити пошкодження

#UkraineWillWin

#RussiaIsATerroristState #LittleVlad

#InternationalAtomicEnergyAgency #IAEA #News

#Ukraine: #Chernobyl nuclear power plant hit by Russian drone strike

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/02/15/ukraine-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant-hit-by-russian-drone-strike_6738194_4.html