CNN Around the World March 19, 2013 16:57:00
Long, the pool is 40 feet deep. water's pumped out, cooled down, pumps back in but no radiation goes anywhere. they've lost power to the pump and that water is heating up. the only risk is if the water gets above 212 it stars to boil away. if it boils away, rods get dry, fission occurs and that's a very, very bad thing. even so, that's four days away. if they don't do anything at all. certainly they're working to get this back up. but this is what the reactor plant looks like. so that graphic i showed you was a nicerepresentation. look at just the destruction that's happened here because of th...