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>> they are trying to get through the walls or the crack. >> but to be clear, the people doing this closeup work with whats going on right there are really in grave danger themselves of radiation. >> they are. and so radioactive there, they couldnt really go in there. they have to somehow do it from the outside. i mean, we talked about helicopters or somehow trying to shoot a hose through that hole, and i think they really need to get some kind of cameras in there to see whats going on. as far a...

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Whats going on right there are really in grave danger themselves of radiation. >> they are. i mean -- and apparently its so radioactive up there that they couldnt really go in there. they have to somehow do it from the outside. i mean, weve talked about helicopters or somehow trying to shoot a hose through that hole, and i think they really need to get some kind of cameras in there to see whats going on. as far as i can tell, they havent yet. >> frank von hippel, nuclear physicist, co-founder of...

What that means is the force of that explosion or smoke from the fire or both carried aloft radioactive particles being released by the damaged spent fuel rods. uranium pellets in the big now probably damaged metal tubes. this is not a nuclear explosion. there are not nuclear chain reactions going on here, but this is a means by which radioactivity is being released into the atmosphere, and the question is whether or not those fuel rods, even if already damaged, whether they can be resubmerged. ...