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Its held to something like 1 1/2 so these are very, very high rates. theyre nothing like what youre talking about. >> so, victor, just to follow up, if that is the measured level of radiation right now, is it fair to presume that probably that is coming from these spent fuel ponds that dont have water in them? >> well, yes, apparently at least in unit 4, the -- they dried it out or nearly dried it out, the fuel -- what happens at first is the cladding or the tubing which the fuel pellets are put...

Possibility is that it can burn and that means it reached over 2200 degrees fahrenheit. when that happens it disintegrates and fuel pellets themselves are exposed directly to the fire and to the air and they volatilize. whatever material is in there with go volatile and lift up with smoke and into the atmosphere. the lucky thing if theres one lucky thing in this event so far is that most of the time the wind has been blowing out to sea. if wind turns and goes the other way, i would suspect conta...

A meltdown? >> well, if we have a meltdown, jenk, what it means is that the fuel rods that are in the core, they begin to melt, and literally, as it says, the real fear, if you have a complete meltdown is that those fuel pellets inside that fuel rod go down and then they start to melt and they form like a -- its been described to me like molten lava. and then they go down to the bottom of the reactor and then they have a nuclear reaction and then all this radioactivity goes out into the environm...

To drive the pumps, you need electricity. firstly because of the quake the external powerlines got knocked out. then the onsite diesel generators for reasons we dont understand stopped working. very bad sign. that only left the batteries onsite we are not sure how many batteries there are and what the state of them is. if the problem is only a lack of power, they have to get some form of power back into the plan to drive the pumps to cool it down. >> greta: if those batteries arent working, then...

To drive the pumps, you need electricity. firstly because of the quake the external powerlines got knocked out. then the onsite diesel generators for reasons we dont understand stopped working. very bad sign. that only left the batteries onsite we are not sure how many batteries there are and what the state of them is. if the problem is only a lack of power, they have to get some form of power back into the plan to drive the pumps to cool it down. >> greta: if those batteries arent working, then...