Chechen rebels say they blew up Russian dam

steven johnson

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Fri Aug-21-09 05:17 AM
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Chechen rebels say they blew up Russian dam

Edited on Fri Aug-21-09 05:18 AM by steven johnson

It will reportedly take 40 bilion rubles ($1.25 billion) to rebuild the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam complex on the Yenisei River in Siberia. It was the largest hydropower plant in Russia and construction will be expedited on the Boguchansk hydropower project, also in Siberia, to compensate for the loss of electrical generating capacity.

Divers Scour RusHydro Wreckage; Death Toll Mounts

MOSCOW, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Chechen fighters said in a letter posted on a rebel website that they had used an anti-tank grenade to cause a disaster at a massive dam in Siberia this week presumed to have killed over 70 people.

"Glory to Allah, on August 17 through our efforts, a subversive operation was carried out in Khakasia at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro-electric dam," said the letter from a group calling itself the Martyrs' Battalion.

"In the machine hall we managed to plant an anti-tank grenade with a timer, the blast of which caused much stronger damage than we could have hoped for," said the letter, which was published on the www.kavkazcenter.com website. (Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

Chechen rebels say they blew up Russian dam

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Fri Aug-21-09 05:32 AM
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1. When they start blowing up nuclear power plants,

it'll cost a lot more than that.

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Fri Aug-21-09 09:19 AM
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2. NOrmally when you attack a powerplant you go after the generators

Much easier to get to, damage, and very expensive to repair. Can take years to replace the turbines which are all custom made. That a single AT round did this much damage makes me question the story.

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Fri Aug-21-09 10:29 AM
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3. Reportedly two of the water conduits broke, flooding the turbine hall

The water would be under pretty high pressure in the conduit. It's unclear to me whether an antitank grenade on a water conduit would cause a shock wave in the water that would split the conduit open. Possibly.

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