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now he makes shocking remarks about asian-owned businesses. wolf blitzer is off. im joe johns. youre in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> breaking news, a horrifying scene in a crowded apartment complex in virginia beach as a navy jet crashes into buildings there, shooting flames and thick, black smoke into the sky. the crew members ejected and were taken to the hospital. now an urgent effort to account for all of the people on the ground. our brian todd ha...

Syndrome." meltdown would indicate that the core is physically melting, like molten metal you might see in a movie of iron being poured into an inget. what we have, temperatures between 2,000 and 3,000 fahrenheit. it takes more than 3,000, maybe up to 4500 degrees fahrenheit to melt the fuel. what we have really if you can envision a pile of pebbles in the reactor, that kind of fuel damage occurs much, much earlier. there may be local melting in the core. as long as water is in the core and ther...

Point in the future, is there any reason to repair this plant or would it be operational again and should it be? >> i dont believe this plant can be operational again. even the installation of reactors five and six do not appear to be damaged may have a lot of subtle damage because of the earthquake. i personally believe that some of the latest damage that has appeared in the spent fuel pools may have been due to leaks and pipe cracks caused by earthquakes. so just inspecting these reactors maki...

Able to keep the fuel rods cool enough to the point where they wouldnt melt down completely? >> i suspect that they are not able to keep these fuel rods cooled enough. theres clearly been some fuel damage, because of the hydrogen explosion in the pool of unit 4. >> okay. not cool enough, but how bad is all of that? because we have not seen what is, you know, commonly known at nuclear meltdown. >> no. no. what i think is happening is that the water they are putting on it, any water is good at thi...

But remember the initial levels are very low. they are set very low. so when they raise them they are not raising them to extraordinary levels. the numbers i have seen coming out of japan in the sense of radiation numbers are not really levels that would do you harm unless you were in there for some period of time. and they drop right back off. when they release the pressure notice reactor vessel. they release some of the radiation that comes from the fuel damage. i dont prefer meltdown. i prefe...

Are happening there could happen without partial significant fuel damage, the hydrogen explosions and the release of radioactive materials, and i think on unit two it appears there has been a major break of some kind in the reactor containment system and that is where some of the releases are coming from. >>neil: thank you very much for taking the time. and now, tokyo electric is their promises thinking they are close to restoring power at fukushima and that would mean they could resume the cool...

Diesels kicked on and cooling the core and doing what they needed to do to keep the reactor under control. we think the tsunami then caused more damage and cut off their ability to continue to cool the core. so the reactor shut down safely. they did get cooling going then they lost about it an hour later. >> explain complete meltdown versus partial meltdown and how much fear do you have watching this that were is going to see a complete meltdown? >> what youre talking about is fuel damage. as th...

Diesels kicked on and cooling the core and doing what they needed to do to keep the reactor under control. we think the tsunami then caused more damage and cut off their ability to continue to cool the core. so the reactor shut down safely. they did get cooling going then they lost about it an hour later. >> explain complete meltdown versus partial meltdown and how much fear do you have watching this that were is going to see a complete meltdown? >> what youre talking about is fuel damage. as th...

Workers at fukushima are doing to protect the people offsite. to your question specifically, actually after the earthquake it appeared like everything should and the diesels kicked on and cooling the core and doing what they needed to do to keep the reactor under control and get to safe shutdown. we think the tsunami then caused more damage and cut off their ability to continue to cool the core. so the reactor shut down safely. they did get cooling going then they lost about it an hour later. >>...