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Told a group of reporters that containment systems for gushing wells still needed work. heres what he said, "these containment systems are a work in progress. both systems currently have limitations on water depts and barrel-per-day containment capability." so were barreling straight ahead, even though containment systems are "a work in progress." that sounds disastrous. in other words, if something goes wrong, oopse, we were in the middle of a work in progress. but to republicans, of course tha...

Water is pumped in and flows around the fuel where it heats up and turns into steam. that drives generators to make electricity. but if a reactor runs dry, as one did today, the fuel rods overheat and melt and that may have started in three reactors. the nuclear fuel could then sink to the bottom of the reactor, the beginning of whats known as meltdown. but provided the steel wall of the container does its job, there shouldnt be a leak. no one can get close to check exactly whats happening. thes...

There? >> the good news is the system is robustly designed. the containing building is containing the radiation and thats the whole point of having a containment building and the various containment systems and they spent a lot of money on these reactors when they built them. for instance chernobyl did not have any containment building. this is a containment building that has a pressurized pre-stressed concrete and a pressure seal so that its basically going to contain -- even if that reactor ha...

>> finally hitting the big island about 3:37 this morning but again, those are -- >> steve, can you hear me? >> now, we got you. >> all right, japan, youre right, japan has issued a state of emergency at one of its main nuclear power plants because the cooling system had a mechanical failure. there was also in a nearby turbine building separate from the reactor building. it was a fire but the reactor building apparently had no such fire and the government is saying theres no radioactive leak. ap...

I. >> the obama administration has approved the first deepwater oil drilling permit to noble energy to drill a well about 70 miles southeast of venice, louisiana in 6,500 sfeet of water. its about 30 miles further offshore than where the deep warter horizon disaster occurred, only in 5,000 feet of water. so the new well is going to be 1,500 feet deeper than that. so at least they must now have planned to stop a leak if they have to, right? theyve got to. well, it turns out, not exactly. ken sala...

Massive leak. lets get the details live from venice, louisiana. with a good saturday morning to you, what can you tell us about this new plan? >> reporter: good morning, alex. essentially, what theyre trying to do is increase containment to the point that no more oil is leaking into the gulf. so this is about containment. its not about shutting down that well. and the way that theyre going to try to go about doing that is by replacing the current containment cap which has been successful to a de...

Coming up but is 0100% is wishf thinking. there are so many pieces to the puzzle theyre trying to juggle in this operation that it is fraught with risk and anything could go wrong. and given the history here, it probably will. so i think its a long shot but lets just hope they can. >> lets hope youre right. we have to root for it obviously but if this cap works this weekend. >> right. >> why would it have been the case that we had to wait 81 days for it to work? >> thats probably the $20 billion...

Burned were whatever it is they decide to do with it. they want to get a better cap on. theyre considering removing that containment cap and putting on a cap with a tighter seal. there are a couple different factors that come into play with that. when they remove that cap, does that mean oil spews unchecked into the ocean as it did on day one. do they operate some of the other containment systems simultaneously? we dont have answers to those questions. theres a third system theyre trying to put ...

Million barrels of oil thursday through its two containment systems. government scientists estimate 35,000 barrels of oil are gushing from the well. it also says it has paid out 39,000 claims totaling $126 million. the average payout per claim, $3,900. nbcs charles hadlock joins us now live from venice, louisiana. bad weather could add to the problems, we have been talking about the possibility of what might turn into a tropical storm, potentially, and i just want to stress potentially heading t...

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