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Buildings. that steam has come from the reactor itself. we have some indication in the unit two reactor that there may have been some degree of fuel overheating and some form of fuel melting. whether or not that plutonium may have come from the spent fuel pool in unit three or some of the other reactors or as a result of the containment venting that has been going on over the days. it is difficult to tell. at the end of thematter where i coming from. it needs to be taken care of. >> talk about t...

Dismiss at all for anywhere a near moment we had three nuclear power reactors whose core failed. and during a containment venting, we discharged high levels of radioactivity across the countryside in northern japan and out over the ocean, over the northern pacific. we certainly dont want to sweep that under the rug. but i think, though in terms of the relative scale, again, i think were bound on either end by both the three-mile scenario and the chernobyl. and were sort of parsing it a bit finel...