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Probably not a bad idea to put all your troops and equipment stockpiles near an area that just about everyone is going to be reluctant to bomb indiscriminately - nobody wants to accidentally destroy that shell protecting that nuclear power plant I would imagine.

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Shelling it is a cheap way to spread radiation around the center of the country, like a dirty bomb.

is this the same plant as the one from 1986? this plant is still active today? im very surprised.

Not active, but actively contained.

active as in radio-active...

The other three reactors there were operational until 2000.

Looks like they removed the fuel in 2013. That's good.

Huh, how often have nuclear reactors been in a theatre of war? Is this the first time?

No, not the first.

Israel bombed an Iraqi nuclear power plant in 1981. The plant had been completed but had not yet been fueled or gone critical (active).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/7/news...

When a nuclear power plant has a failure as catastrophic as that in Chernobyl it is active (radioactive) for a _very_ long time, with no way of shutting it down. The immediate site of the power plant will be uninhabitable for about 20,000 years, however, the wider area might become safe to live in in just a couple of hundred years. While radiation levels decrease in general, there have also been measurements of increasing radiation in 2021.

Uninhabitable for humans, but it's great for wildlife (who don't care if they get cancer later in life, or don't live long enough to get it). And no, AFAIK no three-eyed fish has been sighted yet...

interesting, i wonder if we get any examples of accelerated mutation causing some new evolutionary adaptation we have never seen before

No, the current structure is from 2018

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_New_Safe_Confinement

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