And how to protect yourself and family
Existential threat to Europe
Strikes close to a storage facility for spent fuel
Iodine-127, good
Iodine-131, very radioactive
Iodine-131 (half life 8 days)
Caesium-137 (half life 20 years)
Uranium 235 (reactor-grade uranium), half life 700 million years
Largest nuclear power plant in Europe, 6 reactors, at Zaporizhzhia
Chernobyl 4 reactor 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 environment,
Reactor core had 192 tonnes of fuel,
with the deposition of radioactive materials in many parts of Europe.
Some 350,000 people were evacuated as a resu