MARTINEZ: All right, how have Ukraine and Russia responded to the report? But I think the hope is that they would have enough for at least a number of days to keep the nuclear reactor core cool and figure out either some kind of other solution or, of course, in the worst-case scenario, a big evacuation. They've used some of that because they did lose power at one point. Normally, they would have enough for, say, 10 days, A.
LANGFITT: Yeah, there was one, I thought, and they said that even without power, the inspectors say that the plant still has a lot of diesel fuel to run emergency generators. MARTINEZ: OK, anything encouraging that inspectors may have found? They're crucial to running the pumps that push water to cool the nuclear reactor core to prevent, of course, a meltdown. And also, the concern - the big one, of course - is repeated damage to these external power lines that we've been talking a lot about.
There was a case back last month where an employee was injured in an artillery barrage, and he happened to be at the time near a spent nuclear fuel building. It's been the subject of sporadic shelling back since early - I think early August. Of course, this plant is really dangerous. The plant has just 80 staff for its fire brigade. Frank, what are the most worrisome things that inspectors found?įRANK LANGFITT, BYLINE: Yeah, A, terrible working conditions is one thing, and they said it made it more likely that workers could make dangerous mistakes. MARTINEZ: NPR's Frank Langfitt joins us now from southern Ukraine. Yeah, the United Nations has once again called for both Russia and Ukraine to stop fighting around that particular nuclear plant. inspectors have painted an alarming picture of conditions inside a damaged nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
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