Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Posted: 2nd September 2024

Nuclear technology depends on 100 percent human reliability, writes Linda Pentz Gunter, and that simply isn’t going to happen. Human fallibility has already led to nuclear power disasters. Malfeasance could cause another, especially in a war zone. 

Alarm bells at Kursk?

Ukrainian troops are now in Russian territory, close to the massive Kursk nuclear power plant. After fears that Ukraine’s six-reactor Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant might be attacked, those concerns now extend to Kursk. The situation is made more dangerous given Kursk is the old Soviet RBMK design, with no secondary containment and the same model that exploded and melted down at Chornobyl in 1986. Meanwhile, the IAEA seems powerless to avert the danger. READ MORE

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