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Brian Mann

Ukraine strains to safely operate nuclear power plants while under Russian invasion

Technicians at the Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant demonstrate the process for reactivating one of the facility's Soviet-era reactors. (Brian Mann/NPR)

KHMELNYTSKYI, Ukraine — The head of Ukraine's nuclear energy utility, Energoatom, says his country is trying to do something never before attempted: operate a large network of atomic reactors in the midst of a full-scale war.

"Never such case has happened before actually," said Petro Kotin, who spoke to journalists recently in a room deep inside the Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant in central Ukraine.

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