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Would be guaranteably dead within 30 days. its an extremely dangerous job for the fukushima 50. the workers that has the task of trying to get this under control. their biggest concern right now is keeping the fuel rods cool. they are still struggling to do this after all this time. apparently the water keeps boiling off. they have to keep pouring additional water on to keep those from being totally exposed and causing a full meltdown. unfortunately the more water they add the more water that dr...

They had been shut down prior to the earthquake and the tsunami, but in being shut down, they removed the fuel rods from those reactors and put them in this temporary storage area. so these are relatively hot waste rods that are generating a lot of radiation. and they need to be cooled. whats happened apparently is either a failure in the water pumps or some other problem such that the water level may be declining, or the water may be boiling off, which would put them at risk for disaster. and i...

About 30 minutes they could no longer see anymore flames. obviously theres a cooling issue there. what are the risks and what needs to be done urgently? >> the urgent thing is you have to keep water going into that nuclear fuel pool. its not being cooled. they are just pumping salt water in and its boiling off. almost like a pot on the stove. it will keep boiling off. you have to make up for whats boiling off. if the water drops and fuel becomes exposed, it causes a very high gamma ray exposure ...

Dangerous with our next guest. thats james actin who has been following the nuclear situation in japan today. i understand once you lose, as they say here, the power to the cooling supply ins an hour before basically you have coolant boiling off and possible meltdown. is that right? >> thats basically right, cenk. when you scram a reactor, when you turn it off, it continues to produce heat. you need a source of water to cool that while the reactor cools down over the course of a number of days. ...