Explore Putin

NOTE: I don't think this will happen, and I especially don't want this to happen. This is just an attempt to visualize the worst possible scenario that lies immediately before us. Like a bad disaster movie from the 2000s. In the summer of 2023, Vladimir Putin went from being a would-be conqueror fighting a losing battle in Ukraine, to Bond villain. After barely hanging onto power following the mutiny of the Wagner Group, and victory in Ukraine looking less likely by the day, the Russian autocrat gave the order to blow up the power units and cooling pond of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. Prior to this order, the reactor in hot shut down had been intentionally set to conditions comparable to Chernobyl prior to its accidental explosion. The destruction of the power units and cooling pond meant that no new cold water was flowing over the fuel rods, and nothing could be done to retract the rods or scram the reactor. What water remained was superheated into high pressure steam, with