Containment Structure News Today

>> hi. my name is denise duffield. its okay, thank you. i am the mom who started the chains dot or petition that now has over 6000 signatures for the folding of the santa susana field lab. youre going to hear a lot today. weve got a lot of facts. we know the facts. we are all intelligent people here. but i think what is lacking is courage to do the right thing. and so, i wanted to bring you my daughter, my daughter is a two-time cancer survivor at nine years old. >> can you do it? woul...

worst drought in 1,200 years. >> well drive this lake down to elevation 1,000. that is 100 feet above dead pool, and youre at the bottom of the martina glass. prosecutors now have less than one week to submit proposed redactions to the judge so he can decide what might be released publicly. >> i think judge rinehart is going to protect the identity of confidential informants. >> even as his legal problems are mounting his hold on the republican party is tightening. im phil mattingl...

courage to do the right thing. and so, i wanted to bring you my daughter, my daughter is a two-time cancer survivor at nine years old. >> can you do it? would you like to go to disneyland today? >> okay, lets go to disneyland! >> oh, yeah! >> are you coming? >> im coming to. >> she earned all these beads during her cancer treatment program. each bead represents something different. for example, red represents when she had -- black when she got booked with a needle, yellow for inpatient...

Opinion: We can keep devastating accidents like this from happening and fouling or water, writes Dale Braun, so why won't Iowa do something?

Overheated. the fuel swelled and size and structural damage was sustained. >> a partial meltdown occurred in the reactor that had no containment structure. the activity was so high that they had to open this huge garage typed or to try to vent the radioactivity out. one scholar had estimated that the radio active iodine from the meltdown could have been 250 tons greater than the amount released -- tmi was a larger reactor. this was a smaller reactor, but had nothing to prevent the reactor from g...

Ukrainian positions which the rgzs are trying to do with artillery in place right in those areas. >> yeah, puts ukrainians in a difficult position militarily. steve, i want to ask you weve reported on this power plant in the past. i think there were a lot of concerns at the very start of the war, but there were also overstatements on what was possible and what wasnt possible given how these plants are actually structured now. i want to walk if you could on what the actual misnomers are on what c...

Been a partial meltdown at the reactor that we know called the santa susana field lab. they obtained documents and photos and also film footage. >> 13 of the 43 uranium fuel elements eventually became overheated. the fuel swelled and size and structural damage was sustained. >> a partial meltdown occurred in the reactor that had no containment structure. the activity was so high that they had to open this huge garage typed or to try to vent the radioactivity out. one scholar had estimated that t...

Quiet >> so over the years, they built ten nuclear reactors. plutonium-fueled. dangerous rare earth and made nuclear fuel out of it, and a hot lab in which they shipped in and radiated nuclear fuel to be cut apart. none of those had a containment structure. those domes. theyre just regular rooms. >> most well-known of those, a reactor was called the sodium reactor experiment. >> the sodium reactor experiment was different. >> built for industrial application, medical research and scientific expl...

Reactor that we now call santa susana. they obtained footage. and documents. of the inside of the melted core. >> the fuel swelled in size and structural damage was sustained. >> partial meltdown occurred in a reactor with no containment structure. the radioactivity was so high they had to open this huge garage-type door to try to vent the radioactivity out. to the rest of l.a. one scholar estimated that the release from the melt down could have been 250 times greater than that from three mile i...

Incredibly irresponsible. shelling a nuclear power plant. it was just by shear luck that they didnt actually breach the containment structure and create radioactive release. theyre being irresponsible about this. what theyre trying to do here is take control of critical infrastructure, the energy, the gas for heating, water, food, put the ukrainian population under siege and try to break their will. >> lets look at this larger geopolitical issue here. here is ukraine. this is this wall of nato a...