As Russia continues its deadly invasion of Ukraine, experts are beginning to sound the alarm on the risk the fighting poses to the country's nuclear power plants.
Russia's takeover of the site of the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant meltdown has raised their fears.
Some fear that the fighting could result in damage to the power plants, which would have disastrous results for large swaths of the world.
The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency is gravely concerned about the situation in Ukraine.
Half of the country's electricity is supplied by 15 nuclear reactors. It's perfectly possible that some will be exposed to military fighting and become casualties.
If radioactive material is exposed to the atmosphere, it could be carried throughout the region.
Nuclear power plants are very strong and designed to resist accidental aircraft crashes, according to James Acton, a physicist and co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Nuclear power plants are not too concerned about being a target of military operations from either side. Grossi told a press conference that he was convinced that there was no chance of a targeted attack on a reactor.
As we enter another day of military escalation in the Ukraine, that comfort is still there. Moscow is trying to break the will of the Ukrainians. If a power plant was damaged or accidentally hit, we might have bigger issues than Putin.
Ukraine's nuclear power plants are at an unprecedented risk as fighting continues.
Russia is trying to seize the melted down Chernobyl nuclear reactor, according to the Ukrainians.
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