PREVIEW: The Westinghouse design at the ZNPP breaking down in a war zone & What is to be done?. Henry Sokolski. NPEC.
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🗓️ 12 August 2023
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PREVIEW: The Westinghouse design at the ZNPP breaking down in a war zone & What is to be done?. Henry Sokolski. NPEC.
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| 0:33.0 | My conversation with Henry Sikowski, my colleague, he's an executive director of the Non-proliferation Policy Education Center. |
| 0:40.0 | On these apparition nuclear power plant at risk for more than a year in a combat zone, |
| 0:46.0 | being maintained by the Russians without very clear understanding of maintenance and repair, |
| 0:53.0 | there are six containment vessels at number six, the largest in Europe. |
| 0:59.0 | Number four has been on what is called hot shutdown, |
| 1:02.0 | in order to provide energy electricity to maintain the other five containment vessels on cold shutdown. |
| 1:11.0 | Hot shutdown is necessary because the outside power lines that are connected to the plant |
| 1:17.0 | are not sufficient to run everything they can run the monitors. |
| 1:21.0 | The generators that back up the outside power lines are meant for just a short period of time. |
| 1:27.0 | Here's the situation as we understand it. |
| 1:30.0 | The outside power line was cut by shell fire in these last days, said to be repaired. |
| 1:36.0 | At the same time, number four experienced a water leak out of one of the steam generators, |
| 1:42.0 | there are three or four steam generators around the containment vessel, a water leak. |
| 1:47.0 | The Russians are proposing and intending to put number four on cold shutdown, |
| 1:52.0 | therefore they need another power source. |
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