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For the nuclear facility, as are backup deceasele generators and fuel. safe transit quarters must be maintained. russia must halt any further use of force that might put at further risk all 15 operable reactors across ukraine or interfere with ukraines ability to maintain the safety and the security of its 37 nuclear facilities and their surrounding populations. the united states remains highly concerned that russian military forces controlling the chernobyl site have not permitted operators the...

Been able to communicate with theirfamilies, havent had been able to communicate with their families, havent had a shift change since thursday, operating under duress, it is a recipe for disaster. you cant shut them down and we understand that several of the actors at this site are shut down but however that has consequences stopping number one you are now cutting off electric supply through ukraine which is dangerous in itself and second, even when you shut it down it is still dangerous. as fue...

Level. this would have been quite serious. couldve been multiple ways that they could have been a meltdown. that there couldve been a breach of the containment facility. couldve seen an artillery shell hit the spent fuel ponds. which are unprotected, completely unprotected. having those fuel rods feet up and explode. this is a disaster waiting to happen. it is not over yet. the fact that they are operating at gunpoint, under duress, without a shift change, cut off from their family. even under t...

At the plant are continuing, and no security, or safety systems, are compromised. the head of the company that runs the plants, is that the station management is now working at gunpoint. effectively, as hostages. u.s. ambassador to the united nations, linda thomas-greenfield, speaking about the dangers of a nuclear situation today. watch. >> by the grace of god, the world, narrowly, averted to a nuclear catastrophe last night. it was incredibly reckless, and dangerous. it threatened the safety o...

Speaks to how we will know, what we will know about this unfolding conflict with no apparent end in sight right now. ambassador, one of your counter parts when we talk about the role of diplomacy on the world stage, bidens u.n. ambassador also spoke out about this on going concern about the nuclear capabilities and running, operating some of these nuclear powerplants, take a listen. >> reporter: the united states remains highly concerned that russian military forces controlling the chernobyl sit...

Joseph cirincione is a nuclear policy expert at the quincy institute for responsible statecraft in washington. thank you forjoining us. simple question butjust how worried should we be about this lack of communication and the fact that they are not calling their own shots, are they? we should be _ their own shots, are they? - should be very worried. operating a nuclear power plant under the best of circumstances is a tricky business. these guys arent homer simpson, they are trained engineers, th...

U.s. ambassador to the united nations, linda thomas-greenfield, speaking about the dangers of a nuclear situation today. watch. >> by the grace of god, the world, narrowly, averted to a nuclear catastrophe last night. it was incredibly reckless, and dangerous. it threatened the safety of civilians across russia, ukraine, and europe. the united states remains highly concerned that russian military forces, controlling the chernobyl site, have not permitted operators there to have a shift change, s...

And here you have these operators operating at gunpoint under the command of a russian military officer who knows nothing about nuclear power plants. havent been able to communicate with theirfamilies. havent had a shift change since thursday. 0perating under duress. it is a recipe for disaster. you cannot shut them down. and we understand that several reactors at this site are shut down but, however, that has consequences. number one, you are now cutting off electrical supply for ukraine which ...

Another southern city. at least 45 marines died in that missile strike and the destruction is very evident, too, in the eastern city of kharkiv, that has been main target for russian forces, it is a city that the ukrainians desperately want to hold on to for strategic and of course, symbolic reasons. were also seeing new satellite images of the chernobyl power plant, decommissioned plant and hearing the ukrainian workers being held there hostage for sometime now are being allowed to go home ther...

Would spread around the world as the radioactive material from chernobyl and fukushima did. >> absolutely. took another country to even warn about that. malcolm, the international atomic energy agency is warning that some of the operators at the nuclear plant havent had a shift change. i think about doctors and pilots and other people that work in high stress environments, how they work for over a week without shift change. we would never allow that to happen. i know experts say we are in the cl...