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De facto military base. russia's national guard troops, putin's domestic security force, are guarding the plant. >> i'm very worried about zaporizhzhia. >> reporter: the plant has been cut off from the electricity grid five times, leaving diesel generators the last line of defense. fighting has also come too close. the i.a.e.a. reports shelling hit a building housing fresh nuclear fuel in september and a reactor building in november. it's estimated 4,000 ukrainian staff are left at the plant out of 11,000 the year before. >> it's going to have an impact

>> if that happens then there will be a major fire in the turbine hole and after that it can actually impact the reactor building. >> reporter: essentially are you saying that that risks a meltdown of the reactor? >> yes, could be, because, you know, you cannot stop this fire if it goes. >> reporter: there's been a renewed exodus of civilians living under russian occupation in the towns close to europe's biggest nuclear power plant. safely in ukrainian-held zaporizhzhia they consistently told cnn that russian troops were bombarding locations close to the plant, shelling that russia blames on u...

These systems could be compromised, and then we really have to worry that -- that there could be a serious accident. >> right. and -- and to that point, how can a scenario like this be perhaps better mitigated? i think only one reactor of the six was running. if the reactors aren't running, are they safe or safer? or -- or not? >> well, even as a controlled shutdown of the reactor, it's not like you just click a switch and it's off. the fuel remains in the core for some time, for several weeks actually, until it's cool enough to take out and transport to a spent-fuel pool that's normally outsi...

Order valued between Rs 1000 cr to Rs 2500 crThe construction arm of L&T has secured a significant order in the Nuclear sector from Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) for its Heavy Civil Infrastructure business in India to construct the Main Plant Civil Works of the Kudankulam 5&6 units (KKNPP 5&6 - 2X1000 MWe). The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant is India's first Light Water Reactor (LWR) of 6 units with a generation capacity of 1000 MWe each. The scope of work includes construction of the Reactor Building, Reactor Auxiliary Building, Turbine Building, Diesel Generator Building and o...

L&T Construction bags contract to build two units of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project