there s huge defense and depth on these plans. they were designed to operate through an 8.2 quake. they survived this earthquake the tsunami took out some of the back-up systems. the ultimate back of up has been the reactor containment which are working. seawater option was built into the plant. this was not anticipated. it is something you don t want to do. you don t want to put seawater into the facility. but it was planned as an ultimate back-up if you needed it and it is working. sean: we hearing meltdown. when we talk about nuclear anything, that i assume people s minds go towards nuclear explosion of some kind. there s no question about that sean. a meltdown is basically a nuclear engineering term which simply means that the heat from the radioactive decay is
there s huge defense and depth on these plans. they were designed to operate through an 8.2 quake. they survived this earthquake the tsunami took out some of the back-up systems. the ultimate back of up has been the reactor containment which are working. seawater option was built into the plant. this was not anticipated. it is something you don t want to do. you don t want to put seawater into the facility. but it was planned as an ultimate back-up if you needed it and it is working. sean: we hearing meltdown. when we talk about nuclear anything, that i assume people s minds go towards nuclear explosion of some kind. there s no question about that sean. a meltdown is basically a nuclear engineering term which simply means that the heat from the radioactive decay is greater than we want it to be