Tag: Energoatom

[09-03-2022] Ukraine admits shelling area around nuclear plant

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

September 3rd 2022 – The Ukrainian military publicly admitted striking the area around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in an official General Staff briefing on Friday. Previously, Kiev had claimed that Russian forces used the plant as a military base; now it says all troops have relocated due to the visit by IAEA inspectors.

Ukraine admits shelling area around nuclear plant

MSN/Agence France-Presse:

Ukraine said on Friday it had bombed a Russian base in the town of Energodar, near the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant which is being assessed by United Nations inspectors because of safety concerns.

Ukraine admits to bombing Russia’s base in Energodar

Ukraine’s military nuclear program

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According to Laurence Norman, journalist for the Wall Street Journal, International Atomic Energy Agency Director Rafael Grossi told the Davos Forum that 30 tons of plutonium and 40 tons of enriched uranium are stockpiled at the Ukrainian power plant in Zaporijjia [Zaporizhzhya].

The enrichment rate of the uranium is not specified. Uranium enriched to 5% can only be used for civil purposes; weapons manufacturing requires a threshold of 80%.

Ukraine’s military nuclear program

H/T: THE NEW DARK AGE

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The amount of enriched uranium and plutonium found on the territory of the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine’s Energodar was more than enough. Such volumes could be used for the production of nuclear weapons, Sergey Kondratiev, deputy head of the department at the Institute of Energy and Finance told lenta. ru publication. The discovery calls into question the viability of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) and Euratom (European Atomic Energy Community).

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant uranium reserves enough to build nuclear arms