those are dangerous. those are containers, right? remember if there s an explosion that take place because of a fire fight, if there s a stray bullet that goes off, all bets are off. it turns out fuel pumps are lightly guarded and it means there could be an explosion that releases high level nuclear waste into the air where it vaporizes. that s what we saw at chernobyl where roughly a third of core vaporized because of an explosion that took place. fukushima, of course, is loss of cooling. that s the kind of accident that we have to watch out for here. just remember during the fukushima accident, there were plans in place to evacuate tokyo. can you imagine that? trying to evacuate tens of millions of people in tokyo metropolitan area? that s what they were looking at
where systems come under attack and his power, if there is a crack in the vessel that contains the water for the cooling systems can fail and that s what we saw at fukushima. the term nuclear meltdown comes from the fact that the court or the field can literally meltdown into the earth, into the water supply in this reactor is right underneath the river, it s pretty common that site reactors are on the river because they require a lot of water but that would mean to nuclear radioactive material can get into the river and flow into the back seat. so it could be a very serious ecological disaster. 50 be a very serious ecological disaster- be a very serious ecological disaster. ., , disaster. so a big risk here. anything disaster. so a big risk here. anything happened disaster. so a big risk here. anything happened it - disaster. so a big risk here. anything happened it stops - disaster. so a big risk here. j anything happened it stops the reactors from cooling down. it s un
us why that is. the radioactive core of a nuclear power us why that is. the radioactive core of a nuclear power plant us why that is. the radioactive core of a nuclear power plant is - us why that is. the radioactive core of a nuclear power plant is very - of a nuclear power plant is very hot, and in the spent fuel rods, after they are run through the reactor are hot, and they are on site and so there are elaborate cooling systems to keep them from melting down. but if the plant comes under attack, melting down. but if the plant comes underattack, if melting down. but if the plant comes under attack, if the systems lose power, if there is a crack in the vessel that contains the water for the cooling, then those systems could fail. that is what we saw at fukushima. the term nuclear meltdown comes from the fact the car or the fuel could literally melt down into the earth, into the water supply. this reactor is right on the dnieper river. it is quite common to site reactors on the riv
see the cooling system break down, the fuel rods heat up and looking at meltdowns like we had at fukushima. possibly a build up of hydrogen gas, exploding the facility like at fukushima. you re worried about theeds threats. there s many ways it can get catastrophic, very quickly. i ask the question i ve been asking all week which is what is vladmir putin s end game. if there s an explosion, that hurts russia as well. what is he thinking now? i don t think he intends to cause a nuclear accident. he doesn t want to terrorize the population of ukraine and he s doing that. he wants to cut off the electrical supply. if this was a coal plant or wind farm and you cut it off or blew it up, it wouldn t matter.
the month of that disaster. you would see the failure of, say, the electricity or the pumping systems, the cooling system would no longer be cooling the rods. the rods would heat up dramatically, causing a thermal reaction that would melt the fuel rods that would probably melt the whole core of the reactor right through the bottom of the containment vessel that s there. you could see that result in this development of hydrogen gases inside the reactor, leading to an explosion of the hydrogen gas. at fukushima, we had three meltdowns, three hydrogen explosions. if you get an explosion like that, then you re looking at highly radioactive material. you know, kill on contact radiation levels and spewing that not just around the plant but 100 1,000 square kilometers. president zelenskyy overstates it a bit.