UKRAINE: Residents Near Nuke Plant Given Iodine Tablets in Case of Leak
Western media blames Russia for attacks on plant
What Happened? The Nuclear Energy Agency said the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant temporarily lost connection to its last remaining operational 750 kilovolt (kV) external power line on 25 August at least twice during the day but power was restored on 26 August. The plant has six reactors.
Where? The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is in Zaporizhzhya, a city on the Dnieper River in southeastern Ukraine. Sky News reported that residents who live near the plant were given iodine tablets. (The CDC noted that Potassium iodide or KI can be used to help block one type of radioactive material from being absorbed by the thyroid.)
How Does the iodine work? The CDC’s website noted that a person must take it before or shortly after exposure to radioactive iodine. When a person takes the right amount of KI at the right time, it can help block the thyroid from absorbing radioactive iodine. This happens because the thyroid has already absorbed the KI, and there is no room to absorb the radioactive iodine. Think of filling a jar with blue marbles. If you then pour green marbles over the jar, there will not be room and they will just spill out.
HE SAYS, ZELENSKY SAYS
Both Russia and Ukraine have blamed the other for attacking the facility.
Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian President and now deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said the West and Ukrainian officials are actively seeking another Chernobyl-like disaster in Ukraine, according to Russia’s Tass.
“The scumbags in Kiev and their Western backers seem to be ready to stage another Chernobyl,” he posted on Telegram. “Rockets and shells are falling ever closer to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant’s reactors and radioactive isotope storage facilities."
He called allegations that Russia was the aggressor near the facility as “100 percent nonsense.”
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He dismissed the allegations Russia was behind these attacks as "one-hundred-percent nonsense."
"Even the UN does not believe this," he said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that the world came close to a nuclear disaster the day before, when the facility was taken off line.
"If the diesel generators hadn't turned on, if the automation and our staff of the plant had not reacted after the blackout, then we would already be forced to overcome the consequences of the radiation accident," he said.
He tweeted, “The world is on a verge of nuclear disaster due to occupation of world's third largest nuclear power plant in Energodar, Zaporizhzhia region. How long will it take the global community to respond to Russia's irresponsible actions and nuclear blackmailing?”
TRENDPOST: The claim out of Kyiv that Russians are responsible for attacking the plant should be met with a level of skepticism. Michael Black, the director of the Centre of Nuclear Engineering at Imperial College London, told Al Jazeera earlier this month that the Russians want to use the electricity from the plant, which; implies that they don’t want to damage [the power plant].”
Ukraine’s military confirmed that it used a kamikaze drone to kill Russian soldiers who were inside a tent about 150 yards from a reactor, The New York Times reported.
TREND FORECAST: As we have noted in Trends Journal articles going back to 30 April 2014, following the United States orchestrated overthrow of the democratically elected president of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovych, there was NO NEED FOR NATO. And that the expansion of NATO would lead to conflict with Russia.
We wrote: “NATO has gone on too long. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established on April 4, 1949, as a defensive alliance whose purpose was to defend Western Europe in the event of a Soviet invasion. As NATO’s first secretary general put it, NATO was formed in order to keep the Russians out of Western Europe and the Americans in… (Subscribe to receive our premium content.)