"Due to power surges, the New Safe Confinement — the key structure that isolates the destroyed 4th reactor of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant and prevents the release of radioactive materials into the environment — was left without electricity," the Energy Ministry said.

“Due to power surges, the New Safe Confinement — the key structure that isolates the destroyed 4th reactor of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant and prevents the release of radioactive materials into the environment — was left without electricity,” the Energy Ministry said.

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  • ultimate_worrier@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    61·
    2 days ago

    Wrong. The heat exchanger pad underneath the elephant’s foot (gigantic blob of radioactive material) needs to be continuously cooled or it will melt through anything below it and contaminate the water that flows underneath. Guess what they use to pump the water to cool it?

    • ryannathans@aussie.zoneEnglish
      31·
      3 days ago

      That would require complete removal of all energy sources - which clearly hasn’t occurred and even then it would take weeks for a major problem to emerge. No need to fearmonger, it’s already serious enough as it is. There are additional backup measures for cooling previously used that don’t require electricity too.

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        Still interesting, I personally didn’t realise the elephant’s foot needed active measures at all. I didn’t see anything about that when I re-read the wiki page on it.