Ukraine: Martellini (nuclear physicist), ‘does not worry Chernobyl but tactical nuclear weapons’

“Even in the presence of a fire in the Chernobyl forest, the spent fuel is in the water, under the steel plates, the problem is not that now. The problem now is that Putin, facing the risk of getting bogged down by this war, like the only solution is to resort to the small power tactical nuclear weapon. The Russian advance is bogged down and what is the weapon that can change the fate of this conflict? What worries me is not Chernobyl, what worries me is the bombs “. So at AdnKronos Maurizio Martellini, nuclear physicist, professor at the University of Insubria at the Department of Science and High Technology (Disat). “The Russians have 2,000 tactical nuclear warheads of this type – he adds – What will Putin do? Many of us think that if the war continues, he may decide to give a strong signal and use a bomb of this type. The problem, moreover, is that operating in this way would break the taboo of nuclear war. And in the face of this, I don’t know how long we will have to live in the future, because it means that from then on in any conflict these weapons can be used “. Today, continues Martellini,” tactical nuclear weapons have a particular bombable material called plutonium, they are weapons of compact size, of limited power (from 1 to 2 kilotons). But in our nuclear war game simulations a single weapon of this type would ‘vaporize’ the Como. They are weapons of terror. From an engineering point of view, they are not science fiction weapons “.