Nuclear reactor malfunction leaves millions of Russians without power

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1. By Isabel van Brugen – Reporter:

   Millions of Russians in the south of the country were left without electricity on Tuesday after a power unit at the Rostov nuclear power plant was shut down due to a malfunction.

   The Rostov nuclear power plant supplies power to the Russia’s entire Southern Federal District, and rolling power outages affected residents of Russia’s Krasnodar Territory, Rostov region, Sevastopol, and Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula illegally annexed by President Vladimir Putin from Ukraine in 2014.

   Read more: [https://www.newsweek.com/russia-nuclear-plant-rostov-electricity-power-outage-1926259](https://www.newsweek.com/russia-nuclear-plant-rostov-electricity-power-outage-1926259)

2. Thoughts and prayers. 💅🏼

3. Would it be bad if substations with the relais for the rolling power were struck with drones at the same time? Or is that only done by the Russian army that targets the civilian population?

4. Poor Russians. Maybe killing some innocent Ukrainian children with rockets costing millions of dollar will brighten up their mood?

5. Crimean power comes from the mainland? Seems like a good weak link to go after (the transmission lines, not the reactor.)

6. Not great, not terrible…

7. Why do you think they sized Ukrainian npp ? They just can’t maintain theirs, and like the usual Russian way they just took their neighbour’s.

8. Here we go again

9. I hope it’s not another Chernobyl

10. *Nervous r/Europe noises*

11. Oh oh! I’ve seen this film before!

12. Did they try turning it off and then on again?

13. Hopefully another chernobyl isn’t happening. Well. It wouldn’t be the worst as long as the wind blew east

14. Anyway… Today here it’s Hot… Time to start a/c

15. Russians have power??

16. They say everything is normal. Same thing they said about Chernobyl.