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Tremendous reporting. Should read their deeply sourced reporting about all of that. It is fascinating and devastating at the same time. Yes, exactly those two things, yes. Have a good weekend. You too. In august of 2020, donald trump was campaigning for reelection. We were in the throes of the covid19 pandemic. The summer saw a wave of protests and up risings over the murders of george floyd. To top it all off, the state of california was experiencing its largest wildfire season in recorded hist...

Produce heat. you need election terrorist run the valves, pumps, and -- electricity to run the valves, pumps, and apparently the tsunami knocked out the emergency generators. the batteries wont last forever, theyre rushing to find an alternate form of electricity. they dont have a lot of time do this, but so far they dont have a lot of damage either. theyre really racing to get things set up before the battery power is lost. >> and how long do we have here? what is the hour-by-hour time scale th...

Inevitable meltdown? >> at this point, a meltdown is not inevitable. but its a little hard to say -- each of these plants is designed a little differently. the company has been issuing frequent updates but hasnt said how long they can keep going in the stopgap method. what theyre doing now is they have a pump that runs on steam, not electricity. as long as youre making heat, you have steam, the pump is dumping more coolant, more water into the reactor, thats slowly boiling off and being released...

Fukushima plant? >> when you shut down the new york plant, youre continuing to produce heat. you need election terrorist run the valves, pumps, and -- electricity to run the valves, pumps, and apparently the tsunami knocked out the emergency generators. the batteries wont last forever, theyre rushing to find an alternate form of electricity. they dont have a lot of time do this, but so far they dont have a lot of damage either. theyre really racing to get things set up before the battery power i...

Some time, but apparently the tsunami knocked out the emergency diesel generators. they have batteries. the batteries wont last forever, theyre rushing to find an alternate form of electricity. they dont have a lot of time to do this, but so far they dont have a lot of damage either. theyre really racing to get things set up before the battery power is lost. >> and how long do we have here? what is the hour-by-hour time scale that we could be looking at before theres some sort of inevitable melt...