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Which is a battery-powered mechanism that also failed. that means inside because there's not water pumping in one, two, three different ways into this fuel core, you have heat. and that heat is a serious problem as this begins to melt. as you begin to damage this core. engineers went to battery pumps. those worked for a while, they went dead. you saw the diesel pumps, they worked for a while and went dead. it's not exactly clear what happened. of but in the last-ditch effort, they're starting to pump sea water into this core, into this reactor. if these rods become exposed, the temperature ins...

>> mr. gunder son a lot of americans are watching tonight saying could this happen here? you know the yankee plant in vermont, you know the design of other facilities. do you have any concerns? obviously the systems are designed, you have the normal pumping, then you have the backup pump, then you have the battery pumps, in this case, all these are built to have redundancies, in this case all the backups have failed. do we need to triple check all these systems? >> i think before what was impossible has now become possible. we need to examine the credible threat. the 23 reactors that are ident...