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Old 04-03-2018, 12:11 PM  
Bladewire
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Russia has a long history at FAILING with nuclear reactors. Poor Turkey! I bet it melts down or fails within 10 years Max, most likely 5 years.

Russia's failed nuclear ambitions:

1986 - Chernobyl - The Chernobyl accident in 1986 was the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel. The resulting steam explosion and fires released at least 5% of the radioactive reactor core into the atmosphere.

1992 - Leningrad - An RBMK reactor released a radioactive cloud which traveled over north-eastern Europe.


1997 - Leningrad - Worker Sergei Kharitonov revealed photographs of cracked walls and groundwater seepage at a nuclear power plant waste storage facility. He also revealed that the plant has been dumping 300 litres of contaminated water into the Gulf of Finland annually "for years".

1998 - Leningrad - An RBMK reactor was shut down following the discovery of a radiation leak

2017 - leak.[39]
Autumn 2017 Russian Federation Roshydromet had issued report stated rise in beta activity of aerosoles and surfaces at all monitoring posts in South Ural from 25th Sep to 1 Oct 2017. In two aerosol samples Ru-106 activity increase was detected. At 26th and 27th Sep Ru-106 decay products was detected in Tatarstan republic. At 27th and 28th Sep high pollution levels of aerosoles and surfaces was detected in Volgograd and Rostov-on-Don. In two aerosol samples from Chelyabinsk Oblast 986- and 440-fold activity increase was measured comparing to preceding month[40] The Mayak nuclear plant is widely suspected as the source of the radiation.
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