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russian military forced the others to shut down and it lost its main connection to the nations power grid and atomic safety experts are extremely worried. cnns melissa bell has the latest from ukraine. >> reporter: theres been good news from the ukrainian counteroffensive tonight according to officials here in kyiv with an aide to president zelenskyy of what he says is the ukrainian flag. this town has been the center of battles for some time and we are getting some confirmation of the...

Facility for example. when it exploded there was nothing at all to contain the radioactive plume and it went out of control very quickly. these are much more modern reactors here, six reactors with very thick containment domes, about a meter or two meters thick, reinforced concrete. youre not going to see a chernobyl type accident. but thats why i make the fukushima comparison. thats what most experts are looking at. so, still, a major nuclear catastrophe, just not quite on the scale of chernoby...

Literally under gunpoint right now, im worried you lose the pumps, that means you lose the water, that means the fuel can overheat and become damaged leading to a nuclear meltdown. >> everyones mind, of course, went quickly to chernobyl when hearing about this. what is different though here with this facility? >> there are two key differences here. one of the most critical pieces is the containment dome that this plant has. so chernobyl style reactors didnt have any containment around their reac...

And now, to michael, the foam director of homeland security for the state of new york, and right now managing partner of blue water international a global security firm. this was a time not that long ago where everybody was afraid of nuclear power and japan came long and in the united states we have needs. where are we? >>guest: as you know, 30 years we have not had any new licenses and obviously it was a defining moment, that, yes, the unthinkable can happen, and the plant in why.right now is a...

Were forced to withdraw after radiation levels surged early in the day. it doesnt say where. it says work on dousing reactors with water. they are obviously not cooling those reactors down. >> shepard: from the very beginning, what weve been told on camera and off camera is this, we are fine as long as we can keep liquid on to that place. as long as we can still have our workers there, everything is fine. what happens if we can have our workers there is a different story. what weve been told fro...

Radiation levels surged early in the day. it doesnt say where. it says work on dousing reactors with water. they are obviously not cooling those reactors down. >> shepard: from the very beginning, what weve been told on camera and off camera is this, we are fine as long as we can keep liquid on to that place. as long as we can still have our workers there, everything is fine. what happens if we can have our workers there is a different story. what weve been told from the beginning is, we wont ge...

Changes, im sure. a lot of procedural changes. everybody will look at drilling these wells and doing these operations totally different. >> reporter: one difference? there is now an rov in the water 24/7 keeping careful watch over the relief wells blowout preventer. james lusk is the pilot. he takes his professional assignment personally. >> we all live by the coast. and this here could hopefully stop it, sir. >> reporter: all the containment domes and the top cap, what you see behind me on the ...

And try to syphon off some of the oil and put it on a container vessel and ship it to shore. thats one of the other ideas. then they have the top hat, almost a smaller version of the original containment dome. the idea would be to lower that and place it over the leak. theyd syphon it to the surface. one idea they were batting around a few days ago was the idea of the junk shot, where they would use, self-explanatory, junk, pieces of tire, even golf balls. the idea would be to blast it right at ...

Months at sea in her pink yacht. yes, that is it. here she is before she set out. she is now the youngest person to sail around the world nonstop and unassisted. thes not an official record because the worlds speed sailing record council discontinued its youngest category. how dare they? >> how dare they? >> kate? coast guard and oil giant bp trying again to stem the flow of oil gushing into the gulf coast. inserting a tube into a cup which you ared pipe, collecting oil and sending it to a sur...

The spill is having on businesses in the gulf. cnn meteorologist reynolds wolf is in biloxi, mississippi, this morning. reynolds, are you hearing anything about the containment efforts? how are those going? >> reporter: the containment efforts are actually pretty varied. with a situation like this, theyve been trying all kinds of things. for viewers turning in across america, youll remember one of the ideas was to get a containment dome, something ability 40 feet in height, almost looked like a ...