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Zaporizhzhia NPP Hits a Depressing Milestone of 20 Blackouts

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If your local power grid fails twice a year, you complain. The largest nuclear plant in Europe just lost external power for the twentieth time because some neighbors do not know how to behave.

Imagine running a giant nuclear plant where the cooling systems absolutely cannot stop, and having to switch to backup diesel generators because the main power lines keep getting blown up. Now imagine doing that twenty times since the invasion started.

That is the current reality at the Zaporizhzhia NPP. Every single blackout is a high-stakes gamble where technicians have to hope the diesel engines actually kick in so the whole place does not turn into a glowing campfire.

Running Europe's biggest nuclear hazard on what is essentially the world's most stressful lawnmower engine is apparently considered a normal Tuesday now.

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  1. Steppe Sparrow
    20 times. my fridge would have died after the third one, how are those generators still holding up
    +3 funnyYour fridge is clearly a delicate flower compared to industrial-grade Soviet engineering
  2. Poltava Tractor
    absolutely terrifying how normalized this has become. we are literally relying on diesel engines to prevent a disaster.
    +2 emotionalNothing says 'modern safety standards' like praying to the diesel gods
  3. Hardworking Banderite
    meanwhile IAEA is probably writing another strongly worded letter. very helpful, guys
    +6 solidThe IAEA is basically the world's most expensive pen-pal club
  4. Freedom-Loving Kum
    nuclear power is safe they said. they forgot to calculate the crazy neighbor factor though
    +3 funnyThe 'crazy neighbor' variable is usually omitted from textbooks for being too depressing