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Missile strikes near a nuclear power plant in Ukraine leave residents on edge

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Fighting at Europe's largest nuclear power plant, now occupied by Russia, turns a Ukrainian city across the river into a target for Russian missiles and a danger zone for a nuclear accident.

LEILA FADEL, HOST:

What's it like to live near a nuclear power plant that's threatened by war? The southern Ukrainian city of Nikopol is located about a dozen miles across the river from Europe's largest nuclear plant, now occupied by Russian forces. As NPR's Joanna Kakissis reports, the city is a daily target for Russian missiles and a danger zone for a nuclear accident.

TAMARA KOROLKOVA: (Speaking Ukrainian).

JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE²: Tamara Korolkova can see the Zaporizhzhia power plant outside the apartment building where she has lived for decades. She used to look at this panorama³ across the river with admiration⁴. Now she has nightmares about the plant blowing up.

KOROLKOVA: (Through interpreter) All of us are just scared all the time. I'm old. I have diabetes⁵. If anything happens, I'll only have time to lie on the floor and close my eyes.

KAKISSIS: Russia occupied this nuclear power plant back in March. But in the last week, Russian forces have used the area around the plant as a staging ground for attacks on Ukraine. This has left many in the friendly, blue-collar city of Nikopol terrified about a nuclear accident. They're stocking up on potassium iodide pills to protect themselves from radiation poisoning.

NATALIA HORBOLIS: (Speaking Ukrainian).

KAKISSIS: City council official Natalia Horbolis hears from frightened residents every day.

HORBOLIS: (Through interpreter) The plant used to be run by professionals, people we knew. Now outsiders have taken it over, and we don't know what they are doing and what it will lead to.

KAKISSIS: Horbolis is showing us around Nikopol. Air raid sirens go off all the time with Russian missiles destroying homes every day. Eighteen-year-old Dima Malichenko was sleeping when a missile tore through his house.

Oh, that right there. Oh, you've got a - you've got cut on your leg.

DIMA MALICHENKO: (Speaking Russian).

KAKISSIS: He says falling rubble⁶ blocked his basement bomb shelter, so he ran outside and huddled⁷ under a tree.

MALICHENKO: (Speaking Russian).

KAKISSIS: His grandfather, Oleksandr Pylypenko, says about a dozen neighbors are now helping⁸ the teenager's family rebuild the house.

OLEKSANDR PYLYPENKO: (Speaking Ukrainian).

KAKISSIS: "I didn't expect that," he says, choking up. "But these days, such acts feel very Ukrainian."

OLEKSANDOR SAYUK: (Speaking Ukrainian).

KAKISSIS: At Nikopol's sandbagged city hall, Mayor Oleksandor Sayuk explains that there have been very few fatalities⁹. Residents heed¹⁰ air alarms, he says, but stress over a nuclear accident has been much harder to manage.

SAYUK: (Through interpreter) Our biggest challenge is that we can't predict what's going to happen tomorrow or even if there is going to be a tomorrow.

KAKISSIS: He's hoping the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency can intervene. Meanwhile, we stop at a partly collapsed¹¹ apartment building that's being demolished¹² and another apartment block where residents repair windows and doors. A missile hit the road outside, leaving a large crater¹³. An elderly woman sweeps broken glass around it. Thirty-five-year-old Anna Yaroshek arrives to check her own apartment.

ANNA YAROSHEK: (Speaking Russian).

KAKISSIS: She says her own father helped clean up nuclear waste after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, when Ukraine was still part of the Soviet¹⁴ Union. He died after years of suffering from cancer.

YAROSHEK: (Speaking Russian).

KAKISSIS: "This radiation has no mercy," she says, "and no pills can really protect us." Joanna Kakissis, NPR News, Nikopol, Ukraine.

1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

3 panorama   

n.全景，全景画，全景摄影，全景照片[装置]

参考例句：

• A vast panorama of the valley lay before us.山谷的广阔全景展现在我们面前。
• A flourishing and prosperous panorama spread out before our eyes.一派欣欣向荣的景象展现在我们的眼前。

4 admiration   

n.钦佩，赞美，羡慕

参考例句：

• He was lost in admiration of the beauty of the scene.他对风景之美赞不绝口。
• We have a great admiration for the gold medalists.我们对金牌获得者极为敬佩。

5 diabetes   

n.糖尿病

参考例句：

• In case of diabetes, physicians advise against the use of sugar.对于糖尿病患者，医生告诫他们不要吃糖。
• Diabetes is caused by a fault in the insulin production of the body.糖尿病是由体內胰岛素分泌失调引起的。

6 rubble   

n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾

参考例句：

• After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
• After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。

7 huddled   

挤在一起（huddle的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• We huddled together for warmth. 我们挤在一块取暖。
• We huddled together to keep warm. 我们挤在一起来保暖。

8 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

9 fatalities   

n.恶性事故( fatality的名词复数 )；死亡；致命性；命运

参考例句：

• Several people were injured, but there were no fatalities. 有几个人受伤，但没有人死亡。
• The accident resulted in fatalities. 那宗意外道致多人死亡。 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 heed   

v.注意，留意；n.注意，留心

参考例句：

• You must take heed of what he has told.你要注意他所告诉的事。
• For the first time he had to pay heed to his appearance.这是他第一次非得注意自己的外表不可了。

11 collapsed   

adj.倒塌的

参考例句：

• Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
• The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。

12 demolished   

v.摧毁( demolish的过去式和过去分词 )；推翻；拆毁（尤指大建筑物）；吃光

参考例句：

• The factory is due to be demolished next year. 这个工厂定于明年拆除。
• They have been fighting a rearguard action for two years to stop their house being demolished. 两年来，为了不让拆除他们的房子，他们一直在进行最后的努力。

13 crater   

n.火山口，弹坑

参考例句：

• With a telescope you can see the huge crater of Ve-suvius.用望远镜你能看到巨大的维苏威火山口。
• They came to the lip of a dead crater.他们来到了一个死火山口。

14 Soviet   

adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃

参考例句：

• Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
• Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。