it was finally hereconnected yesterday. here is sam kiley. he has the latest. this is very troubling news, sam. reporter: pam, the international community remain extremely concerned about the future of the nuclear power station with increased allegations again of shelling both from the ukrainians and the russians both accusing each other of threatening that nuclear power plant by shelling in the environment. so just about 20 minutes drive from here on the ukrainian government side, casualties, civilian casualties but that has been used and is being used as a fire base. a lot of pressure to try to let international observers into that power station. that is where on this very extended front line fighting continues with confirmation a third american has been killed fighting on the ukrainian side with russian backed rebels on the east offered to hand over his body, his remains, we don t know when or if that would be followed through on. this in a weird way is an almost step fo
catastrophic. if those pumps quit, heat building up, steam builds up and the fuel itself can melt down leading to the potential for radio act ctive material to be released. mark says the russian army is essentially holding that nuclear plant hostage. russia is playing with fire both a literal and figurative spence when they re playing with six nuclear reactors that have nuclear rods. it doesn t matter if it s shelled or not. it has to do with the potential for causing chaos in this kind of energy source, i m not a nuclear engineer but i ve been around soldiers a lot. when you put a lot of soldiers, especially the undisciplined type of soldiers russia has in its armed forces in a facility that requires this level of care, you re asking for