Skip to content

Comment on Plutonium Mountain: The 17-year mission to guard remains of Soviet nuclear tests (2013)

Comments

This reminds me of the massive risks that Chernobyl presents to this day, as Russia has attempted to destroy the newly installed $2B protective sarcophagus, on Feb 14 with a drone:

https://world-nuclear-news.org/articles/chernobyl-protective...

The highly engineered protective cover was designed to carefully maintain air pressure to confine the site. The hole caused by Russia threatens all of that, as the Russia's drone lit a fire in the waterproof insulation. The destruction of this basic weatherproofing threatens the entire structure, which was meant to last for 100 years without anybody being required to get close to it. Repairs are, well, difficult. A more detailed examination of the structure and its risks is here in a 12:39 video:

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

Classic russian. Target something for no reason other than psychological impact. Same reason why they bomb civilians etc. The Ukrainians meanwhile bomb Russian bombers.

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.