plant. ukraine says that russia has turned the site into a military base for launching attacks. geraldine thomas is a radiation expert from imperial college london. she joins me now. dr. thomas, welcome to d. w. thanks for joining us. how concerned are you or indeed should we be about the shelling at the separation nuclear power plant? i think there's a concern for the workforce working there. basically point to the gun. you know, it's never wise to do anything stupid around any major infrastructure, whether that's a chemical or a nuclear plants. but i think in terms of potential worry for people further afield than the immediate area. i don't think this is a major concern for us. these places are extremely well protected and even a direct hit on one of the to react is probably would not really mean that there will be a breach and radiation would be released. if that's the case, then it would only be the local area that would suffer the consequences as we saw around snowball. it was the local area that really suffered any consequences for a field. you're not going to get significant amounts of r