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#Ukraine: Chernobyl's Dead Zone weaponized in February 2022. Henry Sokolski, NPEC

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🗓️ 5 August 2023

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#Ukraine: Chernobyl's Dead Zone weaponized in February 2022. Henry Sokolski, NPEC
https://www.amazon.com/Russo-Ukrainian-War-Return-History/dp/1324051191


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This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bachelor. Here's John Bachelor.

0:42.1

This is CBS Eye on the World. I'm John Bachelor, nuclear power plant in a combat zone.

0:48.4

The story in Ukraine is not only Zaporizha, now under control of the Russian forces,

0:54.8

and at risk. But earlier in the war, Chernobyl, the hot zones of Chernobyl,

1:01.6

the number four reactor that is in a containment casket, forever we can presume,

1:07.2

and the other parts of the plant that must be maintained in some fashion to keep the people

1:14.3

of Ukraine and Belarus, and most of Europe safe, except during the war. I welcome Henry

1:20.2

Sikoski, the executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center,

1:25.5

who's my guide when it comes to these matters, because I cannot explain to you what the risk is

1:32.4

about a war zone in a nuclear power plant, hot shutdown, cold shutdown, power lines generators.

1:40.4

I do go to what I learned from a new book, Serhi Ploki, the Ukrainian Professor of History

1:46.7

at Harvard University, the Russia, the Russo-Ukrainian War. Professor Ploki reports that on February 24,

1:56.7

some of the invading Russian troops took control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the

2:02.0

exclusion zone with its arch over damage reactor number four, the spent fuel storage facility.

2:09.7

The Guardsmen, the Ukrainian Guardsmen, lightly armed, surrendered, because they did not

2:14.1

want to fight in the Chernobyl hot zone, the no-go zone. Kiev issued the Professor Wright's

2:22.3

issued a general warning that shelling contaminants to storage facilities, producing a radioactive

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