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by lII1lIlI11ll 6 days ago
> Ukraine nuclear power plants are a massive liability - they make for easy targets for the Russians to obliterate the country - is that what you want for Switzerland?

This makes no sense. Russia has actual nuclear weapons, it can "obliterate" Ukraine (or Switzerland) on a whim with them, if they decide to. Also, as you can verify by looking at the containment zone of Chernobyl catastrophe, full blown meltdown/explosion of a nuclear reactor doesn't really "obliterate" a country size of Ukraine.

> The waste - nobody wants it - it's a hazard for tens of thousands of years

No, it is not hazardous for "tens of thousands of years".

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Your point being?
You complain that nothing makes sense to yu, when given an actual example of the problem of a nuclear plant in a warzone you ask what the point is - we're done here, take your trolling elsewhere.
Your link confirms that Ukraine wasn't "obliterated" even though Russia occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. There weren't any significant radiation leaks either. In fact, it seems that the breach of nearby Kakhovka Dam ("clean" hydro power plant) caused much more devastation and environmental damage.

BTW you might want to reconsider throwing Wikipedia links and trolling accusation on a Ukrainian like me who is familiar with the matter much more than you and was actually affected by Chernobyl catastrophe in 86. It is neither clever nor insightful and you are definitely overstepping (to cite some goals stated in your account description).