. >>> james acton is the co-director of the nuclear policy program at the carnegie endowment for international peace. he joins us now. i appreciate you taking time to be here tonight. thank you. >> thanks for having me on. >> so ukraine is reportedly starting a counter offensive against russia. russia. there is now state department data that shows that russia is running terrifying camps inside russia to which they apparently are forcibly deporting lots of ukrainian civilians. the headlines are all very worrying. there is a lot to worry about in the russia/ukraine war. as a nuclear expert i want to take your temperature as to how worried you are that we might have a nuclear accident or radiation disaster at this huge nuclear plant in zaporizhzhia. >> i am genuinely worried about that. nuclear plant is not designed to be in the middle of a war zone. i think people have an image of a missile hitting the core of a reactor and disbursing radiation. that's unlikely. there is the cooling equipment for the plant which is potentially exposed and vulnerable and deliberately or accidentally that could be

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good evening rachel and wish me luck sleeping tonight after listening to james acton talking about that nuclear power plant situation. you know it i did when i bought the one house that i bought in this world? i kind of drove around the neighborhood looking for nuclear power plant. i just wanted to make sure. just wanted to make sure. there wasn't one within walking distance anyway. >> i mean, the thing about nuclear power is that it's got some stuff going for it in terms of carbon emissions and greenhouse gas emissions in everything, it's great. but you know? what when used as directed, nuclear power plants produce nuclear waste and we're not always great at dealing with it. and a time of war zone, or unpredictability nuclear waste can become a mass casualty event really quickly and in this ukraine case, it's a huge plant right in the middle of a active war zone, and it's a scary situation. >> it brings this problem in a way we haven't been quite able to find a way to see it so clearly before. yes, the nuclear waste last nuclear lasts 300,000 years or something like that. for me i alwa