A fourth of the contents of one of the six reactors at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant being released, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, might spread radiation to Scandinavia.
In a briefing today, Thursday, August 18, Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov, commander of the Russian Armed Forces’ forces for defence against nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, stated that radioactive materials could cover the Baltic and Scandinavian nations if only 25% of a reactor’s components were released from the reactor.
In the event that radioactive materials were discharged from the vicinity of the nuclear power plant, which the Ukrainian side is currently routinely bombing, they would likely be distributed according to a map published by the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant Kirillov.
108th Regional Defense Brigade, 44th Artillery Brigade, and military units stationed in the Zaporozhye region of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are continuously developing plans for what to do if the area becomes radioactively contaminated, according to Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense. The Ukrainian military plans to attack the Zaporozhye station’s property with artillery from positions in Nikopol, accusing Russian forces.
The Secretary-General of the UN, Antonio Guterres, is visiting Ukraine at the same time as these scheduled strikes.
In the event of a nuclear power plant disaster at Zaporozhye, radiation might spread to Scandinavia, according to a warning from the Russian Ministry of Defense.
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