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Certainly a challenge, we are going to try tho do our best for you. jack spencer is a nuclear energy specialist at the heritage foundation. when you hear the headlines what does that mean to you? >> well its not a good situation, that is for sure. but it isnt necessarily the catastrophe that i think many fear. look, what we need tho bear in n mind is that that containment facility is still intact, it hasnt been beached and thats what that is there for. all of the systems are in place to keep the...

Water. this is the core. the core is in this facility. containment facility. i have to take the m&ms out. the five-minute rule. anybody eats m&ms besides me, i break your hasnt. put in here, water is put on and this is sealed. where you get the steam. the pressure cooker. this is why im not a nuclear scientist. no way i could close that. then they cover this all with concrete. then they build the outer shell. now, what has happened? first, because it was boiling and the pressure cooker has a ste...

For the people of japan? >> worst case is a core meltdown which hundreds of tons of fuel in that turning into metal and they burn right through the reactor vessel, through the containment facility and you have that in the open air spewing radioactivity, very highly radioactive material into the ground, into the water, into the air and it could form a plume and have a knock -- nuclear fire, a plume of hot gasses rising into the atmosphere headed east, toward the united states and the radioactivit...

So much trepidation and troubles in the gulf. they have been waiting to do it, because of a hydraulic leak in some part of this containment facility. and lets go to david mattingly to see what exactly is happening. david, youre in new orleans, and we are waiting -- i guess it could be under way right now as far as we know. >> right. as far as we know, that test going straight ahead to determine if this static kill is going to work. you just referenced that video, the shot underneath the ocean th...

Meltdown is coming. no. no. bring the, bring my m&m nuclear power plant in here. this is what it means. remember, i showed you this last night. here is the containment facility. here is the reactor in here and there is water in here. and what this means is the nuclear rods here, theyre controlled by water because you want the water to boil and make steam. so now these rods are exposed, like that. thats it. it just means the water has boiled down to expose the rods which it shouldnt have done. we...

Reactor number three for a few days. there was a breach in containment of reactor no. two, the first breach of containment facility since chernobyl. >> people who dont do nuclear speak, help us understand. >> its bad. its bad and getting worse. does that help? >> its hard not to put it in the context of things like three mile island. >> -- >> when people hear chernobyl, that does not even seem like descriptive enough. >> it cannot be that. it will never be that bad. i was there. chernobyl spewed...