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This is not necessarily going to happen. but the risk is, if the meltdown is uncontrolled, that this could happen. and this is an important point about this. what i just described is not the same as a nuclear explosion. it is not this. it would not be a nuclear bomb. it would not be a mushroom cloud. but it could be a large explosion that spread nuclear material. do you remember after 9/11 when we all learned the difference between a nuclear bomb and a dirty bomb? sort of the same distinction. o...

Countries? doctor? >> well, ms. king is absolutely right in pointing out that the danger is from the stored fuel, not from a nuclear explosion, which is physically impossible. there is not going to be a nuclear explosion. there is not going to be a run away chain reaction. its the fire in the storage fuel pool that were worried about. now, if that fire is the worst case scenario, what it does is it releases a lot of nonvolatile material, such as seize yum that is spread all over the countryside....

Countries? doctor? >> well, ms. king is absolutely right in pointing out that the danger is from the stored fuel, not from a nuclear explosion, which is physically impossible. there is not going to be a nuclear explosion. there is not going to be a run away chain reaction. its the fire in the storage fuel pool that were worried about. now, if that fire is the worst case scenario, what it does is it releases a lot of nonvolatile material, such as seize yum that is spread all over the countryside....

They were toys. the damage ranged from $13 million. a disaster assessment team has visited the area to determine if its eligible for federal relief. military units across the nation headed to the hoosier state to take part in mock nuclear disaster drills. the doomsday scenario called for ap emergency response to nuclear explosion, collapsed buildings and decontamination. preparation is more essential in light of the current situation in japan. finally, a virginia search and rescue team is on...

The steam turns the turbine, the turbine turns the generator, you get electricity. then take the steam and cool it back into the water. the way do you that is having a large body of water. here in the united states, we do that on big lakes. we do that on rivers. we put in a cooling tower so we need less water the but we, too, have a lot of reactors that are on the ocean or on major bays. luckily, the east coast and gulf coast are not subject to tsunami. the west coast may be. but those are desig...

800 to 16,000 in days. 28 of those workers died within three months. >> thats a meltdown. thats the difference between some steam with radiation escaping from a nuclear plant and a meltdown. >> thats exactly right. one thing i do want to underscore is even where weve seen radiation spike with some of these explosions at the nuclear plants in japan, the levels were talking about are still far below that 800 to 16,000 level you hear about at chernob chernobyl. >> right. a number of people thought ...

Once again, our breaking news tonight. another explosion at a damaged nuclear power plant in northern japan. radiation levels have soared to four times their previous level. what would happen if a disaster like the one that just hit japan struck this country? is the united states fully prepared? would you be safe? here now is fema administrator craig fugate. craig, how prepared is the united states? we hear lots of speculation about it being ready for this kind of thing. can any country be ready...

Here in the united states, we do that on big lakes. we do that on rivers. we put in a cooling tower so we need less water. but we, too, have a lot of reactors that are on the ocean, or on major bays. luckily, the east coast and gulf coast are not subject to tsunami. the west coast may be. but those are designed for tsunami. at least theyre designed for the biggest tsunami we think theyd see. what happened in this case is this plant was hit by an earthquake and then a tsunami bigger than what it ...

Evacuation centers, the people distribute it evenly amongst themselves. i saw yesterday one man handing his bowl to another elderly person who had not eaten. thats just the way this culture works. and so the issues that weve seen in other countries after a crisis like this is not something that were really expecting here. if you hear of any sort of issue like that, that will tell you that the culture is becoming -- is basically spiralling out of control. and that is just something we havent seen...

Steam and cool it back into water. the way you do that is having a large body of water. here in the united states, we do that on big lakes. we do that on rivers. and we put in a cooling tower so we need less water. but we too have a lot of reactors that are on the ocean or on major bays. luckily, the east coast and the gulf coast are not subject to tsunami. the west coast may be. but those are designed for tsunami. at least theyre designed for the biggest tsunami we think theyd see. what happene...