Of course it is not official, just a story from old university classmates who visited station recently to do some maintenance in their speciality area.
Zaporozhye NPP was built buy Russians during Soviet times. It uses very popular Russian reactors WWER that is used on many nuclear power plants around the world. After 2014 Ukrainian operator stop buying rods and maintenance from Rosatom and invited Westinghouse to experiment with replacing Russian made rods with Westinghouse counterfeit ones. For over 8 years Westinghouse tried to replicate original rods without any success. Useless Westinghouse rods was just stockpiled by Westinghouse retards in a barns around station. It is a very bad and dangerous idea to put rods made from some random shit into working nuclear reactor in attempt to sort out those that will somehow work. After taking back Zaporozhye NPP Rosatom had to find all counterfeit Westinghouse rods in reactors and replace them with normal ones. One of reactors was fully loaded with different experimental Westinghouse rods, but hopefully was never runned at some decent power level. Also, normal rods are heavily depleted, since Ukraine did not replace them in the hope that Westinghouse will made new rods for them anytime soon. So, reactors have to be silenced. There also was found a lot of unauthorized by IAEA changes made during experimentations. That is why West tried to fuck with IAEA inspection, even tried to kidnap them and shelling plant in a desperate attempt to hide the fact of criminal experiments on running power plant in populated area.
The market for nuclear fuel is huge, and big part of it is rods for Soviet reactors sold by Rosatom. Usually contracts are many decades long but Westinghouse dreamed to hijack that part of market if they will be able to counterfeit russian rods and impose some king of sanctions over Russian ones. That is why the West so outraged about loosing control over their test facility kindly provided by Ukrainian puppets. It is a trillion market and now they lost it. I suppose no other European country will allow such insane experiments on their power stations build around Russian reactors.
So, it is even not about some electricity shutdowns or anything else. It is about coverup of huge fuckup of Westinghouse.
It is also, fortunately, not about producing some nuclear weapon grade matirials, as some rumors insist.
Hardly IAEA inspection will say something about Westinghouse experiments officially, but Westinghouse will know that they know and so on.
PS: Meanwhile that Ukrainian "Energoatom" company have absolutly no clue about current situation on power plant and never had since beginning of the war. It is not Energoatom station anymore in any possible way. So anything they tell about it is complete fake. They are very afraid of possible problems from IAEA due to illegal Westinghouse experiments so lying non-stop to lay the blame to somebody else.
PPS: Don't take that as absolute truth, I can't check it by myself, but at least that story have no contradictions with other known facts and looks much more logical than any other I heard around.
Hardly. The scale have to be magnitude orders larger.
US government. Because they perfectly know that if they order to attack DPR/LPR, than Russia will have to invade.
At least that is how it looks like. There is a huge possibility that it is all staged, because Putin is 100% NWO puppet, and participation in coronahoax proves it undoubtedly.
As for nuclear weapons, I also recalled that at the beginning Russian troops also got Chernobyl territory, but later leave. Like they search something there and found nothing.
Really, Ukraine have no ability to produce nuclear weapons. They destroyed all soviet facilites and labs that could possibly do it. Even with import of western specialists they just have no place where they can do it. The best thing they could do is a dirty bomb.
There is also another theory about ZNPP mess around - West need any nuclear accident in that area to cover up wishful use of shells with depleted uranium against Russia/DPR/LPR.
Also, just for information. Ukrainian military have no weapons that could somehow harm power plant itself. Soviet nuclear power plants protection calculated to fully protect against kamikadze attack of heavy plane with ammunition. The only vulnerable thing is barns with used and failed rods. But even if a largest shell blow up in storage, than only few square kilometers will be contaminated, because there will be no any noticeable amount of lightweight radioactive dust or vapours. Rod is a tough metal thing, of course, you could blow it, but all you will get is rather large radioactive pieces, that will not fly far.
All known serious nuclear disasters on NPP occured when reactor run out of limits, not because of external impact.
You think the Russians searched Chernobyl and found nothing, so they left? How could you possibly know that? Why wouldn't you think they found exactly what they were looking for, then left?
Really, your analysis there focuses on exactly the wrong aspect of it. The question isn't why they left, it's why they went there in the first place. Do you really think they had nothing better to do than to expend military resources during the first incursion seizing a rusty, mildly radioactive tourist attraction? What possible point have you imagined in your analysis there was to that?
But nevermind about answering any of those questions. I thank you for the insight you've already shared.
I suppose, that if they had found, they would have used it in propaganda. Like biolabs and other stuff.
Of course, there is a probability that they found something that nobody should know about, but in that case I don't think it was nuclear weapons. It should be something much worse, but I have no idea what it could be.
They have a question and there was the only way to find out.