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Turns the turbine. you cool it off, pump it back through here and cool down the reactor. rather than burning coal and remember wag the steam, well, you have a reactor core and control rods and pods here warming with you are rain yum inside a nuclear reactor. those rods are warming water to warm water, to warm steam, to warm a turbine, and it goes on and on. and as long as processes are working, everything works great. the problem is that it didn't work right, because when the earthquake happened, power got shut off. this was generating its own power. the power shutoff and backups came in. the ...

The backups were little generators, literally, and then they got flooded by the tsunami. then they had to go to backup power by batteries. well, the batteries were only supposed to last for eight hours. put more batteries in, it's going and going and going, they couldn't get it cool down, now they've finally flood it with seawater and boric acid, hoping this is the final step. they have killed this reactor, it will never come back online, but that's the only thing at this point that they can get this cooled down. but let's hope it works. >> chad with that explanation. we do want to give you a ...

The iaea was informed by the japanese authorities, that the explosion occurred outside of the people mary containment vessel, at unit one. and, the integrity of the vessel is confirmed. >> eric: what could happen next, could there be a full melt down? jim walsh is with the mit security studies program. welcome to fox news, this sunday morning, the report we got 20 minutes ago, there is excessive radiation reported at another nuclear facility, now. what does that mean and, how bad could the scenario be? >> well, eric, it is deja vu all over again, we had the fukuyama plant that had significant ...

Reactor core and control rods and pods here warming with your uranium inside a nuclear reactor. those rods are warming water to water warm to warm steam to water a turbine. goes on and on and on. as long as all processes are working, it's great. the problem is it didn't work right because when the earthquake happened, power got shut off. this was generating its own power. the power shut off and then the backups came in. the backups were a little generator, literally. they got flooded by the tsunami. then they went to backup power by batteries. batteries are only supposed to last for eight hour...

Attempt to manage the cooling there and now, unit 3, which is in the same vicinity, is facing the same problems. the japanese officials suspect there has been a partial melt down. and, more importantly, they decided to flood that one with sea water and boric acid, writing off another billion dollar plant that never will operate again. but that is what you do when you have no other options left and you are desperately trying to cool the plan and as you say, they have taken samples around the plant and that is how they figured out there might be a partial melt down because they found iodine in t...