Many of us did not expect a respected country’s military would take such an outrageous step, now that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin has done it, not only Ukraine but the international community, including Japan, should reevaluate the risk of having nuclear plants as potential wartime targets.

Mitsuru Fukuda

But in a war, all of these different failures that would have to happen for a reactor to become damaged and meltdown — the likelihood of all of those happening becomes much more likely than it does in peacetime. many of us did not expect a respected country’s military would take such an outrageous step.