Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire

Major Energy and Environmental News and Commentary affecting the Nuclear Industry.

Friday, January 2, 2015

atomic power review: Ukraine Nuclear Plants - Resources and Information


First, Happy New Year!  Second....

We're seeing a trend now wherein Russian news sources (RT, ITAR-TASS) apparently have a mandate to erroneously report on events at Ukraine's nuclear plants, blowing them out of proportion.  These sources cannot be trusted, but are reposted and shared widely outside our sphere.

To help all of us combat this I've constructed a special post on my blog.  This post has brief information on Ukraine's nuclear plants and has a number of links to real time information both from the operator of Ukraine's plants and its nuclear regulator.  Using this post you should be able to quickly deduce if information you're seeing somewhere is realistic or not.

Click here to see this new post:


Even if you lost the link to that post, I've meta tagged it so that searching on the blog for 'ukraine' or some such related term would pull up the post right away.  All you need do then is remember it's there and go use the search box to look for it.  You can then get news updates immediately in English from the regulator and operator.  Of course, there is often a delay in these so you can (with just a bit more time) go to the original language page and use a translator to get more recent information.

Oh, by the way...  If and when you get time I strongly suggest looking around the photo gallery I've linked.  Beautiful photos of plant life outside the stations, of artwork and statuary and grounds at the stations, and (see if you can find it) even a tree in a planter INSIDE one of the plants' turbine buildings!  These are some beautiful and well cared for nuclear plants in the visual aspect, and the photos offered are great representations.

The gallery is just as good as that which Bulgaria has for the Kozloduy NPP - a gallery I've long pointed out as a stand-apart example of how to showcase a nuclear plant in photos for the public.
 
 
Will Davis
 
Communications Director, N.S. Savannah Association, Inc.
 
Consultant / Author:  American Nuclear Society

Contributing Author:  Fuel Cycle Week
iPhone:  216-544-3808

No comments:

Post a Comment