NOW…The war is out of control. A Russian attack on the dam supplying water to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant caused Crimea flooding…
“The Machiavellian war strategy in the supply chain of the natural gas market ...
-Hopefully, …the economic giant of the East will wake up and use the unique key that its economic and political power confers on it to find a definitive way out of this situation that is wreaking havoc on the global economy.
…”Caution is crucial when discussing electricity generation, particularly nuclear power. Decommissioned nuclear power plants in Europe require careful evaluation and a focus on the present rather than the past. The IAEA has called for an immediate end to artillery attacks near Europe's largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizhzhia . The report suggests creating a protective zone around the plant with agreement from all relevant parties. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi warned the UN Security Council during an inspection visit that a catastrophic event could occur, stating, Events like this remind us of the risks associated with certain actions.
The name Zaporizhzhia refers to the position of the city: "beyond the rapids"—downstream or south of the Dnieper Rapids/Editing by Germán & CoUkraine accused Russia of blowing up the dam from the inside in a deliberate war crime. Russian-installed officials gave conflicting accounts, some blaming Ukrainian shelling, others saying the dam had burst on its own.
KYIV, June 6 (Reuters) and Germán & Co in Karlastad, SwedenThe Nova Kakhovka dam supplies water to Ukraine's Crimean peninsula and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, both under Russian control. The vast reservoir behind it is one of the main geographic features of southern Ukraine, 240 km (150 miles) long and up to 23 km (14 miles) wide. A swathe of countryside lies in the flood plain below.
The destruction of the dam creates a new humanitarian disaster in the centre of the war zone and transforms the front lines just as Ukraine is unleashing a long-awaited counteroffensive to drive Russian troops from its territory.
Russia has controlled the dam since early in the war, although Ukrainian forces recaptured the northern side of the river last year. Both sides had long accused the other of planning to destroy it.
"Russian terrorists. The destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam only confirms for the whole world that they must be expelled from every corner of Ukrainian land," President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
Russians had "carried out an internal detonation of the structures" of the dam. "About 80 settlements are in the zone of flooding," he said on Telegram.
The Russian-installed governor of Ukraine's Kherson region accused Kyiv of striking the dam with missiles to distract attention from what he said were the failures of Ukraine's counteroffensive in the east. However, other Russian-installed officials said the dam had burst on its own due to earlier damage.
Neither side offered immediate evidence proving who was to blame.
The vast reservoir above the dam supplies fresh water to huge swathes of agricultural land, including the Crimea peninsula, which Russia claims to have annexed in 2014. It also provides cooling water for Europe's largest nuclear power plant, located in Russian-held territory on the southern bank.
The U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Twitter it was closely monitoring the situation, but that there was "no immediate nuclear safety risk at the plant".
Russia's state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom also said the dam breach did not pose a threat for now to the plant and said the situation was being monitored.
SURGING WATERS
The water level at the town immediately adjacent to the breached dam could rise by up to 12 metres, its Russia-installed mayor, Vladimir Leontyev, said on the Telegram messaging app.
Video showed water surging through the remains of the dam - which is 30 metres (yards) tall and 3.2 km (2 miles) long.
Some 22,000 people living across 14 settlements in Ukraine's southern Kherson region are at risk of flooding, Russia's RIA news agency quoted the Moscow-installed head of the region as saying. Kherson is one of five regions, including Crimea, that Moscow claims to have annexed.
The Russian-backed governor of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said there was a risk that water levels in the North Crimea Canal, which carries fresh water to the peninsula from the Dnipro river, could fall. Crimea had sufficient water reserves for the moment, and the level of risk would become clear in coming days.
A Russian-installed official in the town of Nova Kakhovka said residents of around 300 houses had been evacuated, state-owned news agency TASS reported. He said it would likely be impossible to repair the dam.
The dam breach came as Ukraine prepares its long-awaited counteroffensive to drive Russian forces from territory they have seized during more than 15 months of fighting.
Russia said it had thwarted another Ukrainian offensive in eastern Donetsk and inflicted heavy losses. Kyiv has maintained strict silence on the counteroffensive but has dismissed Russia's claims to have thwarted Ukrainian assaults.
Russia also launched a fresh wave of overnight air strikes on Kyiv. Ukraine said its air defence systems had downed more than 20 cruise missiles on their approach to the capital.
The Shebekino district of Russia's Belgorod region near the Ukrainian border came under renewed shelling on Tuesday, local authorities said, urging residents to take cover. Anti-government Russian fighters based in Ukraine claim to have infiltrated the area, seizing villages near the border.
Ukraine's military intelligence agency said on Telegram that Russian forces had blown up the dam "in a panic", in what it said was "an obvious act of terrorism and a war crime, which will be evidence in an international tribunal".
Zelenskiy will hold an emergency meeting about the dam's collapse, Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, said on Twitter.
UKRAINIAN ATTACKS
Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24 last year in what the Kremlin expected to be a swift operation, but its forces suffered a series of defeats and regrouped in the country's east.
Tens of thousands of Russian troops dug in over the winter, besieging the eastern city of Bakhmut for months and bracing for an expected Ukrainian counterattack.
Ukrainian officials have made clear they will not comment on the start of their campaign, although in his nightly address on Monday Zelenskiy was enigmatic, hailing "the news we have been waiting for" and forward moves in Bakhmut in Donetsk.
Russia says it thwarted a major Ukrainian attack in the Donetsk region over the weekend and on Tuesday the defence ministry said a fresh Ukrainian assault had also been repelled.
Writing on Telegram, Russia's Wagner militia leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said Moscow's claims of huge Ukrainian losses were "simply wild and absurd science fiction."
The drought-1964
By Germán & Co, Published in Spanish in El Caribe, Santo Domingo, DR, September 15, 2022, and in English in EnergycentralRapid adaptation to change has always been a virtue in human beings. Why is this the case? The answer is simple because so-called human life is not a continuum of happiness and unhappiness or of stability and instability; fortunately, it is not... On the contrary, life's itinerary is complex, with encounters and mis encounters, loves and dislikes, in short .... Sometimes, our ecosystem, jaded by pollution, reveals itself by provoking natural disasters of enormous proportions... And not to mention the aberrations in so-called human beings' minds that lead to excesses that infringe all the moral canons of coexistence imaginable... Our existence is constantly subject to complex tests through extreme and always unforeseen changes, they say... which is perfectly accurate... In the unique minds of science fictions writers throughout the history of humanity, they have managed to visualize the plagues and changes in political systems that would affect us mercilessly over time...
According to the journal Plos Pathogens of the University of Kent (England), on Friday, 17 November 2019, in Wuhan, China, the SARC-COv-2 virus was detected for the first time. An organism with a simple structure composed of proteins and nucleic acids capable of reproducing only within specific living cells, using its metabolism, according to the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) definition, all this concerning the Coronavirus.
Our affective behavior is the cruelest change humanity has undergone due to the Coronavirus This small monster surely awoke in us the paranoia of terror in a most malicious way…, let us know. Indeed it did, that being in the company of other individuals of our species, by then already submerged by the sophistic evolution of the 2.0 world, where genuine expressions of affection, handshakes and hugs... that do so much good to the intangible of the so-called soul, have been replaced by immaterial faces that flow at an infinite density (billions) per second, devoid of any merciful human contact, would cause us to die. What cruelty we have been subject to… How many of our loved ones are not whit us today? Due to a mistake made by a human error in a laboratory in the isolated province of Wuhan in the millennian China.
Not even in the mind of that genius of science fiction chronicler, James Graham Ballard (JG Ballard, Shanghai, British International Treaty 1930-London, UK 2009) in his short story The Drought (1964), did he fail to visualize what would affect in the future the colony of individuals inhabiting a small, remote and sick planet, called: Earth.
Not only the human sensory system has been affected by these new living conditions, but also the industry in all its processes, a consequence of the forced confinement of human beings, which prevented them from going to their workplaces usually, is suffering from the shortage of raw materials and components to keep the production chain in operation to supply the basic needs that man requires for his subsistence.
The lack of supply of essential goods and the excessive costs of international sea freight transport triggers the poison known as inflation. Global Accumulative Inflation from January 2020 to December 2021 went from 1.9% to no less than 3.5%, practically doubling in one calendar year. By the end of the period, the prediction is close to 7%, according to World Bank indicators. In other words, in a brief time of three years, cumulative inflation has tripled. There are not national economy or family wallet that can deal with this -financial storm-.
In addition to this adverse economic situation initially, caused by the SARC-COv-2 virus, this economic setback has been exacerbated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine since February of this year, which has hurt the fossil fuel market, specifically on the stable and safe purchase price of natural gas from the Tsarist domain. The reason for this is Russia's brilliant military strategy in the economic order in this conflict, using the systematic cuts of natural gas to its customers on the continent as a new element of warfare, known under the concept: Natural gas is the new "Russian winter" as an element of war…
This clever (Machiavellian) strategy on the part of the imperial government of Russia has deepened the economic crisis to levels unprecedented in contemporary history, accelerating the inflationary process in such a way that it has the finances of almost all nations in check, (weakened by extraordinary expenditures (issuing public debt) through subsidies and investments in the health sector aimed at coping with the pandemic times) that drift to the fragile economy of hundreds of millions of families around the world, who are unable to cope with their basic financial commitments, payment of electricity bills, settlements on mortgage commitments, etc...
There is no doubt about the concern of the political authorities regarding the current economic crisis that it is urgent and necessary to resort to emergency measures to deal with this unsustainable economic situation. However, these political actions in financial matters must be based on objective rationality and the true origin of the crisis; the current inflationary process is the result of the pandemic and the recent armed conflict. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has directly impacted the natural gas market, causing a disruption in prices due to a strategically planned restriction in supply.
Given this, the electricity industry has no direct responsibility for the background of the current economic crisis (neither does the political authority); on the contrary is one of the most affected parties because its production costs have increased exponentially. A financial intervention in the electricity industry through a cap price or increasing of taxes are not the most innovative economic measure because they (the electricity industry) do not have any tools to influence the price of natural gas. It is a governmental issue where politicians are responsible for finding mechanisms to solve the situation. In this sense, some European government officials have put forward reasonable proposals intended at contributing to the relief of electricity supply to both the population and industry without risking, firstly, social peace and, secondly, the financial health of the energy sector, which could lead to a domino effect on other sectors of the economy, based on state guarantees, which could be one of the logical alternatives at this point.
Finally, we must be incredibly careful with the so-called -all in- of all installed electricity generation capacity to the system, as far as the nuclear fleet is concerned, many nuclear power plants in Europe have not been dispatched for years, their current condition is unknown. I insist that we must be extremely cautious here. We must not look back too far: ...- In a detailed report on his visit, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that artillery attacks around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, must cease immediately. "This requires an agreement by all relevant parties for the establishment of a protective zone" around the plant, the report: "We are playing with fire, and something very, very catastrophic could happen," warned Rafael Grossi, IAEA director general to the UN Security Council, days after leading an inspection visit to the plant. (Los Angeles Time, underwritten by Hanna Arhirova of Associated Press, 6 September 2022) events to realize the risks of such an action, the worst that could happen is to throw the current crisis back into another horror, as described by the great science fiction writers of the last century.
As an epilogue to these reflections, in the search for wisdom and good sense to prevail over the empire of destruction, in a call for clemency to the gods, in an inshallah of supplication, I have to recall that China, the forgotten ally of the West during the Second World War, was one of the determining factors in bringing the conflict to an end. Now, equally, China, this undesirable economic situation is causing many financial holes in its public finances. Hopefully, out of necessity or common sense, the economic giant of the East will wake up and use the unique key that its economic and political power confers on it to find a definitive way out of this situation that is wreaking havoc on the global economy.
https://energycentral.com/c/hr/drought-1964