00:0035 of these Russian Kinjal missiles
00:02have come within 20 km
00:03of just one nuclear power station.
00:06That's according to Ukraine's Prosecutor General.
00:09That means they were just a few seconds away
00:11from hitting the reactor.
00:13More than half of those missiles
00:14first flew by Chernobyl,
00:16the site of the world's worst nuclear accident,
00:18before passing this plant in western Ukraine.
00:21The head of Ukraine's nuclear power company
00:23says it's not a coincidence
00:25and calls that, quote, nuclear terrorism.
00:39It's not just direct strikes on the plants
00:41that these engineers have to prepare for.
00:47These power station workers are training
00:49for something that used to be a rare emergency
00:50and it's now become routine
00:52because of Russia's attacks on Ukraine's energy system.
00:55Their job is to reduce these power stations
00:57out in a matter of minutes.
00:58to avoid unbalancing the grid
01:00when it can't take all the electricity being produced.
01:03And when there's no outside power coming in,
01:05the engineers here have to fire up generators
01:07to keep the reactors cooled.
01:09The stakes are incredibly high.
01:11As often as once a week,
01:13it's no longer just a drill, but reality.
01:16Today, it is a drill in this one-to-one copy
01:19of the real control room here
01:20at the Kronitsky nuclear power plant.
01:23Over the winter,
01:24Russia destroyed and damaged
01:26most of Ukraine's conventional power plants.
01:28It's these nuclear power stations
01:30that are keeping the lights on.
01:32Reason dictates that fear of cross-border radiation
01:34would stop Russia
01:35from deliberately targeting a nuclear plant.
01:38With a margin of error measured in seconds,
01:40the slightest miscalculation
01:42could still bring catastrophe to both sides.
01:44from Russia to Russia to Russia to Russia to Russia.
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