Ukraine denies radioactive leak on Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant

[bananas]

Source: Reuters

Ukrainian authorities denied on Tuesday a report in pro-Kremlin media that a radioactive leak had taken place at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant, Europe's largest.

Life News newswire published documents which it said came from Ukraine's emergencies ministry and showed that a leak at the power plant had led to a spike in radiation over the past two days exceeding permitted norms by 16 times.

Three officials from Ukraine's emergencies ministry, energy ministry and the plant itself told Reuters there had been no leak.

"The plant works normally, there have been no accidents," said an energy ministry official. The officials could not comment if documents published by Life News were authentic. Reuters was not able to verify the documents independently.

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Read more: http://www.firstpost.com/world/ukraine-denies-radioactive-leak-on-zaporizhzhya-nuclear-plant-2023865.html

[DeSwiss]

1. There's one thing about radioactive leaks.....

...you can't keep them secret for long.

- If you have one, that is.

[bananas]

2. The documents are in Russian

At http://lifenews.ru/news/147890

[another_liberal]

3. "Nothing to see here folks . . ."

"Move along. Nothing to see here."


(sigh)

[christx30]

6. The three-eyed fish

and the 200 foot spiders are naturally occurring.

[another_liberal]

7. And the fish are delicious!

The spiders, not so much.

[LisaL]

4. When Chernobyl blew up, there was silence for many days.

Until they couldn't hide it anymore.

[FBaggins]

5. And the same government that was lying then is lying today (the Russians)

So that much remains unchanged.

What's actually happening is that Russia is losing billions of dollars worth of oil revenue an now finds out that they've lost hundreds of millions of dollars (annually) worth of nuclear fuel sales to Ukrainian plants to a US competitor... so they've turned to propaganda to try to scare people about that decision (which has been going on for months). Twice in recent weeks, a single unit at the plant in question has shut down entirely normally when there was a failure of some distribution equipment (entirely unrelated to the nuclear portion of the plant). This happens all around the world without it ever being a concern... but somehow (always with Russian propaganda outlet sourcing), it gets spun into a big deal that we asked to pay attention to halfway around the world.

[another_liberal]

8. The Russians lying?

You'd better hope it's only the Russians lying!