fire in the midst of gunfire, not a good idea. but we should remember as i say, we go back to 1986, there was a terrible crisis at chernobyl, it released a huge amount of radioactivity, it actually changed the weather and the growing patterns all over a great swath of russia, ukraine, and much of western europe. so nuclear power plants in principle contain enough material such that if there s a fire in the cooling facilities that can release a lot of very dangerous radioactivity and if there s a melt down at the reactor, that can produce a huge release of radioactivity, and god knows there s enough problems in ukraine without a nuclear catastrophe on top of it. how how and again, this
peoples hands about what it was that caused this fire at the very least and where the fire is located. those seem to be basic questions that still need to be answered. i agree. i think the other thing is the level of professionalism in both the ukrainian nuclear community that deals with their reactor and in the russian community, i d say, has been impressive. and so i think if it were up to the professionals who are trying to manage a nuclear power production facility, i would have a higher level of confidence. if this has gotten caught up in the warfare between russia and ukraine then, you know, god only knows. because almost no normal systems no normal, you know, parts of our lives are hardened against
serious military attack. that s just not one of the things that normal people prepare for most of the time. i should point out to our viewers, we re looking these images are coming from a closed circuit monitors. we are not in control of these images. these are being provided by authorities at the facility, so that s why there s low quality to it because it s a closed circuit camera but also you see the images changing and that s not something we have control over but it appears that fire, this is video now from earlier of the fire which you can see there in the middle to the right of that taller structure. they re saying that this is also the firefight that streaks across there which, you know, look almost like snow are actually tracer fire during a
over western europe, and into russia as well. so the russians understand, the risks that are associated with a nuclear power plant. the ukrainian professionals do too, so i m sure they re both, you know, working to try to avoid the worst but nuclear power plants are dangerous. now, assuming, again, the statement from the ukrainian foreign minister is saying, is really describing what is going on. we don t have eyes on the ground there, can t confirm exactly what is going on, again, basing our reporting off what we re being told by ukrainian authorities here, obviously, but of all the things what are the things we need to know specifically in order to determine just for the hours ahead for our viewers, what information do we need to know specifically about this fire, about its location, et cetera. in order to determine how