Black smoke rises from Zaporizhzhya NPP, - Nikopol OVA
The head of the Nikopol regional military administration, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, claims that tires were set on fire at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant.
“Perhaps this is a provocation or an attempt to create panic in the settlements on the right bank of the former reservoir,” Yevtushenko suggests.
He claims that the Zaporizhzhya NPP is operating normally and the radiation levels are normal.
The Russian side did not comment on this information.
Cooling systems facility on fire at Zaporizhzhya NPP, - "governor" of Zaporizhzhya region
The "governor" of the Zaporizhia region, Yevgeny Balitsky, stated on his Telegram channel that the fire at the Zaporizhia NPP cooling systems facility started due to "shelling of the city of Energodar by the Ukrainian Armed Forces."
"Currently, all 6 power units of the station are in cold shutdown, there is no threat of a steam explosion or other consequences. The radiation background around the NPP and the city of Energodar is normal," Balitsky wrote.
"A Stupid Provocation" - Military Analyst Yan Matveyev on the Smoke at the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant
"This is a cooling tower. It cools the water when the station is operating. There is nothing to burn there. There is nothing to burn there. It looks like Russian soldiers put something there and set it on fire. Judging by the smoke, these are tires," he wrote.
Meanwhile, the IAEA reported that the organization's experts "witnessed heavy dark smoke rising from the northern part of the Zaporizhzhya NPP after multiple explosions were heard in the evening."
Well that's… weird. Why on earth would they do that?
Assuming any of this is true, at any rate.
Terror. They do want the Ukrainians to think it's a nuclear meltdown
Too bad we don't have a way to count the radiation levels which is more accurate than looking at a smoke column.
Not anymore we don't, anyhow: https://www.saveecobot.com/en/radiation-maps#13/47.5171/34.5944/gamma (the EU Commission Joint Research Center's map also shows no sensors in the area). Been offline 2 years, so I guess Russians disabled them? Being complete psychos that'd definitely fit their usual modus operandi
Radiation levels so far are nothing to worry about. Ofcourse this might change later