(...) There are two main scenarios of a disaster at ZNPP, Pareniuk argues.
"In one case, there will be a Fukushima-like accident, that is, a thermal explosion, (and) depending on where the wind blows, radionuclides will becarried there," the expert explained.
“This is exactly what (Ukrainian President Volodymyr) Zelenskyy said — that radiation knows no borders. If the wind blows to Russia, it will carry all this to Russia.”
"And another scenario is that if there is no reactor explosion, the leakage of radioactive substances will contaminate the Dnipro River," Pareniuk added.
If the Kakhovka HPP and the reservoir had survived, all these radionuclides would have "mostly settled in the dead water of the Kakhovka HPP, in the dead layer of water that is down near the dam," Pareniuk said.
"By the way, a lot of Chornobyl nuclides settled in the Kyiv Reservoir dam, which is (to the north of) Kyiv," Pareniuk said.
“But we no longer have the Kakhovka dam, and if there is a leakage of radioactive substances, a certain area of the banks of the Dnipro will be contaminated, but basically everything will go into the Black Sea. And then all the countries of the Black Sea basin — Russia, Turkey, Moldova, Bulgaria — will have ZNPP radionuclides.”
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