According to Russian media outlets, experts of the Man Company (a company specializing in hydraulic engineering) presented an alarming data on the situation at the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power plant.
The bedrock bed of the Yenisei River behind the dam is washed out, and a large 378 by 205 meters crater has been formed. Its depth is more than 33 meters. A part of the rocky soil was washed out to a removal channel bed of the turbines, creating an island of rock fragments. The island makes three quarters of the river bed and is an obstacle for the flow.
As a result of the hydrostatic head, the washout is spread in the direction of the floodgate of the dam. That would certainly lead to a destruction of the dam, Russians experts say.
30 kilometers below the dam there's the city of Krasnoyarsk with a population of one million. After it, 40 miles away, the secret nuclear industry town of Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk-26) is located. Its population makes one hundred thousand people.
The secret town has not only a working nuclear reactor and radiochemical production, it contains hills and lakes of radioactive waste with the radioactivity of hundred millions curies. On disaster scale, it corresponds to several Chernobyls. After the dam breaks, all this high-radioactive wastes goes to Yenisei River, which would be the end of the Russian occupation of Siberia.
The crater was formed as a result of idle discharges of flood waters.
"I saw readings of a sonar at 41,2 meters, but it was difficult to record them - the director general of the Man Company, Alexander Minaylov, says. - And now, imagine that there is a 100-meter building (the maximum height of the dam is 128 meters) and a 40-meter pit next to it, and a tremendous force presses the house in the direction of the pit, the house would sooner or later fall into this pit"
The Krasnoyarskaya plant is the second biggest hydroelectric plant in Russia. After the destruction of the Sayano-Shushenskaya plant in a successful sabotage operation by the Caucasian Mujahideen is has became the first.
Department of Monitoring,
Kavkaz Center
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