Update on efforts to form a ‘protection’ team of unarmed civilian volunteers to monitor a de-militarised zone around the endangered nuclear power plant and support the IAEA inspectors.
Recap: Zaporizhzhya has six old reactors surrounded by 37 years of nuclear waste in unprotected cooling pools and dry casks. The plant is near the front line and has been in Russian hands since February although it is owned and operated by the Ukrainian state entity Energoatom, whose personnel still have the day-to-day management.
For months artillery fire has caused damage to various structures including the backup power supply lines needed to keep the reactors and their waste management systems from meltdown or fire.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has examined the plant for safety. The last reactor is now shut down and the backup power to the coolant system reconnected. A demilitarized zone of 30km around the plant was recommended but nothing was agreed upon at the last time of writing (22 October). There are of course many obstacles in the way.
Stuart Littlewood worked on jet fighters in the RAF then pursued a career in industrial marketing.
More recently he worked as a freelance and with innovation consultancies. Psychology degree Exeter University, Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Served as a Cambridgeshire county councilor 1993-97 and on the Police Authority. Associate of the Royal Photographic Society. Since retiring has been a newspaper columnist and produced two photo-documentary books. He is a regular contributor to a number of internet news magazines.
Check out Stuart’s book Radio Free Palestine, with Foreword by Jeff Halper. It tells the plight of the Palestinians under brutal occupation and explains to me why the Zionists who control Israel should be brought before the International Criminal Court.
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