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Told a group of reporters that containment systems for gushing wells still needed work. here's what he said, "these containment systems are a work in progress. both systems currently have limitations on water depts and barrel-per-day containment capability." so we're barreling straight ahead, even though containment systems are "a work in progress." that sounds disastrous. in other words, if something goes wrong, oopse, we were in the middle of a work in progress. but to republicans, of course that's still not good enough. they're calling for more drilling, baby. >> when you shut down drilling...

Water is pumped in and flows around the fuel where it heats up and turns into steam. that drives generators to make electricity. but if a reactor runs dry, as one did today, the fuel rods overheat and melt and that may have started in three reactors. the nuclear fuel could then sink to the bottom of the reactor, the beginning of what's known as meltdown. but provided the steel wall of the container does its job, there shouldn't be a leak. no one can get close to check exactly what's happening. these shots were filmed before the earthquake, so how bad could things get? well, they tried several ...

There? >> the good news is the system is robustly designed. the containing building is containing the radiation and that's the whole point of having a containment building and the various containment systems and they spent a lot of money on these reactors when they built them. for instance chernobyl did not have any containment building. this is a containment building that has a pressurized pre-stressed concrete and a pressure seal so that it's basically going to contain -- even if that reactor has catastrophic consequences, and i don't see any reason why as long as they continue to pump seawa...

>> finally hitting the big island about 3:37 this morning but again, those are -- >> steve, can you hear me? >> now, we got you. >> all right, japan, you're right, japan has issued a state of emergency at one of its main nuclear power plants because the cooling system had a mechanical failure. there was also in a nearby turbine building separate from the reactor building. it was a fire but the reactor building apparently had no such fire and the government is saying there's no radioactive leak. apparently, the core was shut off with containment systems. there was trouble reported at two other ...

I. >> the obama administration has approved the first deepwater oil drilling permit to noble energy to drill a well about 70 miles southeast of venice, louisiana in 6,500 sfeet of water. it's about 30 miles further offshore than where the deep warter horizon disaster occurred, only in 5,000 feet of water. so the new well is going to be 1,500 feet deeper than that. so at least they must now have planned to stop a leak if they have to, right? they've got to. well, it turns out, not exactly. ken salazar told a group of reporters that containment systems still needed some work. he say, these conta...