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Ukraine’s nuclear plant goes offline amid fighting

A woman cuts a pack of iodine tablets before distributing them to residents at a local school in case of a radiation leak in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. Heavy fighting continued Friday near Europe's largest nuclear power plant in a Russian-controlled area of eastern Ukraine, a day after experts from the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency voiced concerns about structural damage to the sprawling Zaporizhzhia site. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) Natalia Stokoz kisses her daughter Veronika, 3, as they stand in front of their house in the village of Zorya, located about 20 kilometers from Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, in Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. Stokoz, single mother of three, says that it's not the shelling that scares her most but the risk of a leak in the plant that could affect the kids and adults who are still living in the village. "The bomb is not scary… but, the power plant, yes, this is most scary", she completes. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) Bogdan, 8, runs to show a drawing he made depicting the Ukrainian flag in front of his house in the village of Zorya, located about 20 kilometers from Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, in Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. His mother Natalia Stokoz says that it's not the shelling that scares her most but the risk of a leak in the plant that could affect the kids and adults who are still living in the village. "The bomb is not scary… but, the power plant, yes, this is most scary", she completes. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) Natalia Stokoz holds her daughter Veronika, 3, as they stand in front of their house in the village of Zorya, located about 20 kilometers from Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, in Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. Stokoz, single mother of three, says that it's not the shelling that scares her most but the risk of a leak in the plant that could affect the kids and adults who are still living in the village. "The bomb is not scary… but, the power plant, yes, this is most scary", she completes. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) Oleksandr Pasko, right, works to repair a harvester machine in preparation to the sunflowers harvesting in the village of Zorya, located about 20 kilometers from Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, in Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. Heavy fighting continued Friday near Europe's largest nuclear power plant in a Russian-controlled area of eastern Ukraine, a day after experts from the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency voiced concerns about structural damage to the sprawling Zaporizhzhia site. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) Girls play as a woman distributes iodine tablets to residents at a local school in case of a radiation leak in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. Heavy fighting continued Friday near Europe's largest nuclear power plant in a Russian-controlled area of eastern Ukraine, a day after experts from the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency voiced concerns about structural damage to the sprawling Zaporizhzhia site. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) FILE - A Russian military convoy is seen on the road toward the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, in Enerhodar, Zaporizhzhia region, in territory under Russian military control, southeastern Ukraine, on May 1, 2022. Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency visited the sprawling plant in southern Ukraine on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022 The IAEA’s Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi highlighted the risks they had to deploy a team in the area amidst the war. (AP Photo, File)