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President hina was talking about a normal forgotten relic of the explosive nuclear past. this part of the pacific is steeped in history it's mute witnesses are everywhere here. and. anywhere talk wrong galop butyric bikini these are tolls were ground zero for us atomic weapons tests the islanders were evacuated from their homes and off the cleanup work the americans left to they placed radioactive soil and debris ninety thousand tons of atomic waste under a huge concrete dome on room it's island but the provisional shelter is

Atomic weapons tests the islanders were evacuated from their homes and off the cleanup work the americans left to they placed radioactive soil in the brink ninety thousand tons of atomic waste under a huge concrete dome on roommates island but the provisional shelter is deteriorating and the water is seeping into the bottom of it. climate change is reopening old wounds. do you hate the americans. while i was it was i don't. i don't want to be somebody that. anger and disappointment a thousand kilometers from her home. a bone sought refuge in multiple she had

The other reactors, it isn't as if the spent -- the fuel rods are sticking up out of that water. very likely they have failed, and they've collapsed and fallen down to the bottom of the reactor. we're not going to know what the condition of those reactors is for a year -- assuming that it doesn't get worse than it is now, which we hope it won't. but assuming it doesn't, even then we won't find out what the condition of those reactors was for years. we didn't find out at three mile island for about five years that half the fuel had melted. and that was a shock. we didn't know then until we hope...

Some reports say the flames are in the worst possible area, the outer layer of the vessel's containment wall. it's still unconfirmed, but if it's true, that's where the spent is fuel stored. now stay with me because i need explain. reactor four could be a time bomb. last night i asked our nuclear expert, jim walsh of mit, his greatest fear. walsh said it was the spent fuel, the atomic waste which lies relatively unprotected in cooling pools inside the reactor buildings. 50 workers, folks, they are standing alone against catastrophe. jim walsh of mit is back with us. jim, is your worst fear bei...

Place with respect to the reactor. it's up on the reactor refueling floor. it's there because it make it very handy when they go into refueling. they don't have to move the fuel very far to get it out of the reactor, get it into the reactor. and of course ultimately it is -- after it cools off in that pool for a while, it is moved out of the reactor building, and into a -- another storage pool which is common to the five or six units at the plant. it -- the spent fuel pool itself is actually in the reactor building, and under normal circumstances it has cooling, and there should not be any pro...