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The tsunami. those backup pumps were knocked out by the tsunami. i want you to see what those sprayers and air drops are aiming at, not the reactor core itself which is in the center of this picture, but the pool that houses the rods. its on the right. those rods dont generate power, but they are still radioactive. when the pool runs dry or merely low, those rods overheat. fires and explosions can happen after that. the worst case scenario is a meltdown, which lets be clear, has not happened yet...

Success. gregg: if it happens again, theyve got some backups here, right? >> they have four backup pumps, okay, theyre using one of them, and if this blows out, they got three more. so were not fooling with this, we realize the importance of temperature control on that space station. gregg: does this give you pause, though, about halting our space program? >> well, it does in the sense that were not going to the moon. mars is a very distant kind of thing. right now, the space station is the name...