Opinion by Meghan Kruger | “15 new Chernobyls”: A survivor’s fears about Putin’s war
, there are six reactors; it’s one of the largest plants in Europe. It’s exactly on the way for the Russian troops moving from Crimea northward. The reports are that the Russian troops are near the gates of the town where the plant is located — Enerhodar.The situation we have today is: The Russian plan was about blitzkrieg, winning the war within one or two days. But that didn’t happen; they turned out to be much less effective in fighting the Ukrainian military than they assumed.
And every new major accident, as a rule, happens as a result of a new combination of circumstances. So people are trying to learn from past mistakes, and thank God there is not much repetition. But every new accident brings in a new scenario that no one ever thought about.Do you think that would change the nature of the war itself? Would a nuclear disaster draw in powers that have been on the sidelines so far, especially in Western Europe?You lived through Chernobyl.
[Radiation] is even more scary. … The wave of thyroid cancer, for example, came five, 10, 15 years after the [Chernobyl] explosion. So just think about covid that hits you 10 years from now, and there’s no vaccine. Try to live for the next 10 years and focus on something else.
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