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Russia Opens The Floodgates

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Russia controls one side of the Kakhovka Dam at the end of the Kakhovka Reservoir on the Dneiper River. Back when Russia was withdrawing to the east side of the Dneiper, they exploded a couple of mines at the dam.

The reservoir provides drinking water to many Ukrainians and is the main water supply to Crimea, where they have been filling reservoirs. It is also the only water supply to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. The reactors at ZNPP are shut down, but they still need cooling water. The intake pipe extends some way into the reservoir. A large supply of cooling water will be essential if the reactors are to be started up again.

Since November, the Russians have been draining the reservoir. Geoff Brumfiel of NPR has the story.

If you don’t read the article at the link, those tweets are from a very good but much longer thread. Mark Hibbs weighed in this morning on Twitter. He just published a long story on ZNPP, which he’s been working on since last fall, also very worth reading, but it didn’t take this into account.

Cross-posted to Nuclear Diner

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