Transcripts for CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper 20220224 22:41

CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper February 24, 2022 22:41:00

send u.s. forces into ukraine. here to discuss, democratic congresswoman elaine luria of virginia, the vice chair of the house armed services committee. congresswoman, good to see you. you served as a navy officer for 20 years operating nuclear reactors as an engineer. what is your biggest fear when you hear that russian troops have now taken over and are controlling the site of the chernobyl nuclear disaster? >> jake, thanks for having me again. you know, the site of the chernobyl disaster that happened in 1986, there's a lot of contamination, a lot of very difficult work went into encasing essentially that exploded reactor core into a sarcophagus, essentially encased in concrete. but the site itself could potentially be weaponized in essence, if there were an attempt to break open that

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