Fire Breaks Out At Nuclear Power Plant In Ukraine

Anderson Cooper 360

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3.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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There’s a fire at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and at one point the country’s foreign minister said the Russian army is “firing from all sides.” Fighting has now stopped, and background radiation levels are currently normal, according to plant spokesman Andrii Tuz. Graham Allison is a nuclear policy expert and a professor at Harvard Kennedy School. He joins AC360 to discuss how worried Ukrainians and the world should be. Plus, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the war in Ukraine is “going according to plan” as France gave a chilling warning that the “worst is yet to come.” Retired Gen. Wesley Clark is the former NATO Supreme Allied Commander. He tells Anderson Cooper what he thinks the Russian strategy could be. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening, tonight from Levy View, Ukraine.
0:04.9	We begin with breaking news, potentially ominous news.
0:08.3	This is a close circuit video of the nuclear power plant in Zapparizha in southern Ukraine.
0:13.8	Now, it is the largest in the country with six nuclear reactors.
0:17.7	It's been under attack for several days from Russian attacks.
0:21.5	And now, it is said to be on fire.
0:24.2	It is burning.
0:25.2	Firefighters reportedly cannot battle the blaze.
0:27.8	These are live images you're seeing.
0:29.9	Because of the continued shooting.
0:31.8	Ukraine's foreign minister tweeting this just a moment ago, and I'm quoting directly now
0:35.8	from Ukraine's foreign minister.
0:37.8	Quote, Russian army is firing from all sides upon Zapparizha, NPP, the largest nuclear power
0:43.9	plant in Europe.
0:45.6	Fire has already broken out.
0:47.1	If it blows up, it will be ten times larger than Chernobyl.
0:51.4	Russians must immediately cease the fire, allow firefighters, establish a security zone,
0:56.8	exclamation mark.
0:57.8	Now, elsewhere, Russian attacks on civilians accelerated today.
1:01.4	This was a huge apartment complex in a city about 60 miles south of Kiev, which is seen
1:06.8	withering attacks over the last several days, and were rescue efforts have been halted
1:11.8	due to more showing.
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