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The tsunami. those backup pumps were knocked out by the tsunami. i want you to see what those sprayers and air drops are aiming at, not the reactor core itself which is in the center of this picture, but the pool that houses the rods. it's on the right. those rods don't generate power, but they are still radioactive. when the pool runs dry or merely low, those rods overheat. fires and explosions can happen after that. the worst case scenario is a meltdown, which let's be clear, has not happened yet at least not on a major scale as far as we know. we do know from the international atomic energy...

Success. gregg: if it happens again, they've got some backups here, right? >> they have four backup pumps, okay, they're using one of them, and if this blows out, they got three more. so we're not fooling with this, we realize the importance of temperature control on that space station. gregg: does this give you pause, though, about halting our space program? >> well, it does in the sense that we're not going to the moon. mars is a very distant kind of thing. right now, the space station is the name of the game, by default. there's nothing else happening with our space program. gregg: all righ...