The strength of the Kiev hydroelectric power station against the backdrop of catastrophic consequences after the explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant by Russian war criminals was assessed by a well-known specialist in the construction of hydroelectric power plants and river structures, Doctor of Technical Sciences Yuri Landau, who at one time supervised the design of hydropower facilities in Ukraine, Vietnam, Laos. , China and other countries.
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… I believe that nothing threatens the Kyiv hydroelectric power station. If we assume that one rocket can hit the hydroelectric power plant, then such a hit will not lead to any significant destruction, Landau said.
Also, in his opinion, the wreckage of downed Russian missiles and drones, with which the occupying army of Russia constantly attacks the Kiev region, does not pose a threat to the buildings of the hydroelectric power station. At the same time, the specialist commented on the theoretical possibility of a catastrophe at the Kyiv hydroelectric power station.
A wave of this size (10 meters – ed.) is impossible, and the rise of the level below the dam will depend on the size of the opening and the volume of the reservoir. When we talk about the Kakhovskaya HPP, as a result of the destruction, a huge hole was formed there – a left-bank spillway dam of about 230 meters, the HPP buildings, an earth dam between the HPP building and the lock. In addition, the volume of the Kyiv reservoir is incomparably smaller – almost five times compared to the Kakhovka reservoir, so today I would not worry about this, – said the adviser to the head of the board of Ukrhydroproject.
Landau also told what happened in Kakhovka.
Kakhovskaya HPP was designed for a bomb attack. So the soil dam had to withstand the fall of three aerial bombs with a charge of half a ton of explosives in one alignment. And under such conditions it would not collapse. The building of the hydroelectric power station was made massive and designed for the fall of an air bomb in half a ton of explosives. Therefore, the Russians were able to destroy it only by laying a huge amount of explosives in the internal gallery in the body of a massive concrete spillway dam, as well as inside the turbine hall of the hydroelectric power station. They destroyed the left-bank part, almost half of the entire concrete spillway dam – 14 spans over a length of about 230 meters. This is a massive concrete structure with a height of 34 m, an array of concrete – about 200 thousand cubic meters. In order to destroy this, to ensure such huge destruction, full access to the facilities and lengthy preparations are needed to lay tens of tons of explosives 230 meters long in the inner gallery of the spillway and in the power plant building. This made it possible to inflict such great harm by destroying the hydroelectric complex,” the specialist summed up.
According to him, only military professionals could implement this. He recalled that during the Second World War, the German invaders also destroyed the turbine hall of the hydroelectric power station and part of the spillway dam of the Dneproges by explosion, placing explosives in the gallery in the body of the dam and in the turbine hall. The Russians did the same.
Source: Racurs
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