So russia can not attack a nuclear facility in ukraine, but us can in iran ? What am I missing ?

zorobo 17 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Ukraine has not been saying death to Russia for 40 years straight. Ukraine did not sponsor terrorism in Russia and other countries. Ukraine does not install and arm suppletive militia in other countries. Ukraine does not physically eliminate opposition at home and abroad. Ukraine does not hang homosexuals. Ukraine does not have a supreme leader for life. Etc.

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15155 24 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> nuclear facility in ukraine

Above-ground facilities containing highly radioactive actinide products, supplying power to nearby civilization, cooled using nearby waterways

> us can in iran

Deep underground enrichment facilities containing weakly radioactive uranium, hours away from population centers

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jiggawatts 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

a) Russia plans to conquer Ukraine and use its resources. Nuclear power plants are very expensive and critical to industry. Russia wants to capture these for their own use, not blow them up and irradiate the countryside that they wish to be a part of their own country!

b) Active reactors contain very "hot" decay products that are very bad for your health if atomised by an explosion and spread around. Chernobyl is the prototypical example of this. Enriched Uranium is less radioactive than natural Uranium, that's the point! Natural Uranium would "trigger itself" prematurely due to its constant background decay radiation.

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mrs6969 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

So if russia do not want it as part of their country, and if it was not that level of radioactive, that would justify such attack ?

So, attacking a nuclear facility is valid if they are not that radioactive (since you are attacking you are not planning to use it anyway)

Did I get your answer correctly ?

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tgv 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My knowledge in these matters is limited, but natural uranium can't trigger itself, can it? At least, it can't produce the classical chain reaction, as there's not enough U235 to sustain it, I think.

	▲	aaronmdjones 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> but natural uranium can't trigger itself, can it? Right now? Not that we know of. Historically? Yes. https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-earths-tw...

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jwilk 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Enriched Uranium is less radioactive than natural Uranium

[citation needed]

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bufferoverflow 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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