the international atomic energy agency said today, that the head of the iaea is going to be the mission of nuclear experts to chernobyl sometime in the next two weeks. to try to assess how much damage was done by the russian occupation there. they say they re going to do quote, nuclear safety security and radiological assessments. of the site. and they re also going to try to set up new monitoring systems. to replace the was the russians all looted and stole, presumably without even knowing what they were for. yeah but all this is happening of course while the war is still underway in ukraine. while russia please hell-bent on taking over all of ukraine or least all of it that they can destroy enough to seize. and while the russian soldiers that occupy the chernobyl exclusion zone or out of there now, that s why the ap was able to get in there today. russian soldiers as of right now, as of tonight, they re still at a nuclear power plant that isn t mothballed and stop andra don t like ch
willing to do things that were previously thought of as unthinkable. today, i m conscious of the fact that the finished parliament, finland, they start debating whether or not they re gonna join nato. that s one of the things where he threatened that he would put nuclear weapons more in play, the nuclear weapons in the baltics if inland and perhaps wean think about joining nato. we also saw this test of very highly touted test of a presumably new type of nuclear weapon. today by russia, cnn today quotas officials saying there are more concern about the threat of russia s nuclear weapons than at any time since the cold war. how do you feel about that risk as somebody who say these things for living? i absolutely cannot rule out the possibility of russian nuclear use. i am less worried about this than i was a month or two back. at the beginning of the war, that first time of the war putin came out and made a very explicit nuclear threat. and i was pretty nervous at
no. i think that was a very good summary of the nuclear situation on the ground. my primary concern is about the nuclear power plant that russia is currently occupying at zaporizhzhia. that s an operating plant, it needs much more active cooling than chernobyl does. spent fuel on the site is much more highly radioactive. it s not surrounded by a large exclusion zone. so russia s behavior extra noble was reckless, it was dangerous. but i think the immediate nuclear power accident recurring this war has always been the operating plants. and fortunately russia has now left chernobyl. we had in a much first day than a found it. but as you read pointed out, zaporizhzhia is still under occupation. and zaporizhzhia, forgive my pronunciation, that s because they can get, it is a gigantic plant, is a currently
i mean we do know that state controlled media in russia wants the russian people today to believe that that missile test was the most important thing that happened in the world today. now we also know that the place they launch this new missile test today with the sight of another russian weapons test disaster back in 1980. a disaster that killed 50 people, a rocket exploded on the launching pad there while it was being fueled, 50 people were killed and russia kept its secret. the world did know about it until almost a decade later when westerners were brought in in 1989 to watch the satellite launch and the guy basically like leading the tour at the site, let it slip about the 50 men who were killed in the rocket disaster there back in 1980. was a not supposed to mention that, did you guys not ever hear about that, this must be a secret? my bad. today the associated press had an unnerving report of what happened at chernobyl at the site of the massive soviet
fully explained. now tonight russia is facing new questions over the recent explosion at a missile testing site, after telling a nuclear monitoring group to stay out of it. we have more from nbc s bill neely. a growing mystery tonight about exactly what happened days after a nuclear explosion. killed five russian nuclear scientists. at least for radiation monitoring stations nearby went silent. and stop transmitting data. russia told international nuclear watchdog today, mind your own business. russia admitted radiation levels did spike briefly after the accident. which was tied to the testing of a nuclear missile engine. president putin said yesterday there is no threat. no risk of increased radiation. but the kremlin is also furious. an international nuclear watchdog tweeted this map of a potential radiation plume spreading across russia. the kremlin calls that of