through there. it steams, makes power, it condenses, makes water, the water cools the rod, the rods steam, and the water goes around and around and around. >> that's broken. >> that failed so there is no cooling from its normal cycle. they don't know how to cool it any better than what they're doing now, which is to take raw sea water and dump it on the rods. eventually the rods steam all that water away. >> sometimes too quickly. >> and steam is released out the top of the building. part of that has some radiation in it. it just does. that steam goes through many, many scrubbers, there's not a lot of radiation coming out, but it's happening. today the rods were dry. for a time, the pump that was pumping water into the reactor ran out of fuel, ran out of gas. so it couldn't pump any more water in. >> so it evaporated too quickly. >> and the rods were dry. it's like taking all the water out of your radiator in your car and driving down the highway. see how long your car will run without a radiator fluid in the
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