Title : Nuclear Risks and Damages in Europe
Abstract:
Today, the growing danger of nuclear weapons in Europe is evident, linked to the uncontrolled military operations on its territory, including the Russian nuclear defense in Ukraine. Major nuclear industry facilities are located there, including several nuclear power plants (NPP) and a number of supporting enterprises, including uranium processing.
NPP are located near large Ukrainian rivers. That is why pose a significant risk of accidents and disasters, including significant irreversible pollution of not only the river basins, but also radiation emissions into the atmosphere, which can spread to vast densely populated areas. The greatest danger here is the Zaporizhzhia NPP (ZaNPP), Europe's largest nuclear power plant, located near the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Station, with combined capacity of its six nuclear reactors reaching 6,000 MW. Any disruption to the operation of even one reactor at the NPP poses a risk of polluting Dnieper River basin and Black Sea. Special monitoring of its condition is necessary to ensure the normal functioning of its water supply systems for other industrial Dnieper water bodies. Moreover, there have already been attempts to disrupt their operation through targeted terrorist attacks, including the use of drones to create chaos under the negative and undesirable external control of certain EU political structures. Unfortunately, active hostilities significantly worsen overall social dynamics and diminish role of the human factor in preventing both natural and man-made disasters. The existence of not only local but also widespread dynamic chaos is undeniable. It is very complex difficult necessary task, but to develop special methods for reducing its harsh turbulence and softening it to a laminar nature.
In my communication some measures to improve security not only at the ZaNPP but also at other large industrial facilities are presented and discussed. These include various measures, including combating terrorist attacks, increasing total safety culture with clean awareness of consequences of terrorist attacks, timely operational information support, improving security NPP, including accelerated advanced training of NPP operators, educating young people in spirit of intolerance towards terrorism ideas and its spread.
