An anonymous engineer working at the reactor has told BBC Ukraine that the Ruskies are shelling some areas of the plant but are choosing their targets under direction from Rosatom, the Russian nuclear power agency. They are damaging the infrastructure, including powerlines and transformers, but not the reactors themselves.
He said that the real danger will arise if all powerlines are damaged and the reactors go into Emergency Shutdown. There will be no power to run the cooling systems and the result will be more Fukushima than Chernobyl with the explosive release of radioactive steam inside the containment areas and cooling ponds.
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