“It’s slightly poignant that in this eleventh anniversary week of the Fukushima energy plant radioactive leakage catastrophe, we now should ponder a worse end result from the direct navy assault and occupation by Russian forces of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant in southeastern Ukraine. We’ve got no assurances that the navy in cost there perceive something concerning the advanced working programs that maintain Europe’s largest nuclear energy plant from a harmful unintentional meltdown. The potential for errors has now elevated exponentially. They vary from mismanagement of the containment zone, or the advanced cooling programs which might be completely essential to run this explicit plant, to Russian navy bombing of amenities that present the electrical energy wanted to handle the plant. And security is considerably compromised if stories that meals and relaxation for the skilled Ukrainians working the vegetation are being compromised by the Russian occupiers are true.
Moscow has a direct accountability for working with the IAEA to guarantee extra skilled management by its personal nuclear energy specialists or others, lest we face a catastrophe all through Europe and Russia past the expertise of Chernobyl. Dare I point out that this takeover is only one, though the most important, of one other dozen nuclear energy vegetation in Ukraine which may fall to unskilled and unsuspecting Russian navy models.”
-George Lopez, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., professor emeritus of peace research
Kroc Institute for Worldwide Peace Research, Keough College of World Affairs
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Extra that includes Lopez:
Episode 52 of the Kroc Solid options Lopez and different Notre Dame specialists discussing Nuclear Politics and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Unprecedented Western sanctions strangling Russian economic system – The Hill, 2/28/22
US-EU sanctions will pummel the Russian economic system – two specialists clarify why they’re more likely to stick and sting – The Dialog, 2/25/22
Will bitcoin assist or hinder Ukraine’s combat in opposition to Russian invasion? -New Scientist, 3/4/22
