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Operating those facilities today. but i think as james said, that concern stretches really in many ways more to the operating reactors that are scattered throughout the country. right now, they've shut down, i believe, six of their reactors because, quite frankly, they don't need the electricity, but those reactors are critical infrastructure in ukraine, both because they supply more than half of the electricity or about half of the electricity in the country and because if those reactors were damaged through accident or through sabotage or intentional action by russians, they could release si...

Would even be military action around the site because this is a -- it's a radiation waste zone, so that certainly raised, in my mind, the concerns, if there were to be any type of efforts to try and take over the actual operating reactors, and those reactors certainly pose much more of a significant potential for radiation releases, which given that some of those are more centrally located in ukraine, could impact ukraine more than they would immediately the neighboring countries. >> okay. i understand. james, i guess what should the international community do when faced with this? >> well, th...

Lose the ability to control the reaction in the reactor, you would get an uncontrolled nuclear reaction that would result in a meltdown and an explosion like you saw in chernobyl. 0n the other hand, the three reactors that are already shut down, and if reports are accurate, they are shutting down the other operating reactors now, you have taken the fuel rods out and put them in cooling ponds, and put them in cooling ponds, and that designed to keep these very, very hot, very radioactive fuel from interacting with each other, but again, if the electricity is cut off, the damaged, the plumbing c...

Around the reactor, would cut off electricity, would cut off the plumbing. if any of those things would happen, you would lose the ability to control the reaction in the reactor, you would get an uncontrolled nuclear reaction that would result in a meltdown and an explosion like you saw in chernobyl. on the other hand, the three reactors that are already shut down, and if reports are accurate, they are shutting down the other operating reactors now, you've taken the fuel rods out and you've put them in cooling ponds, and that designed to keep these very, very hot, very radioactive fuel from in...

There are 104 operating reactors, they're scattered across 65 plants in 31 different states. if you take a look at this map, this gives you a better idea of exactly where this 63 thousand tons of spent fuel, the darker the color of the state, the more radioactive waste that state has, according to the nrc. again, we're talking about 63,000 tons of spent fuel. if you take a look, with the telestrator working, illinois is the state with most, 776 tons. coming in second place is pennsylvania. as we know, pennsylvania, the site of three mile island, the nuclear site that had zadisaste back in the ...