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Surviving without a fatality or serious injury. >> paul i assume when that train crashed, the power went out in all of those cars. it's completely dark. of course this accident happened at nighttime. how do you suppose the passengers were able to get out? >> well that's a good question. it is a good thing that the local motive survived because that's where the black box will answer questions that we have with respect to this event. that box not only records date and time and gps location speed and so on but it also indicates the different control settings, the throttle the brakes whether the h...

These valves automatically and whether the control settings are good enough for them to do that but from what -- the way the accident has unfolded it's very confusing of course for everyone but it doesn't seem that controlled to the extent it exists could last for very long if it is abandoned if it's abandoned and it is out of control, what kind of explosion would we be looking at? >> well, as i said, the reactors themselves are like pressure cookers and the steam will build up. it's got a lot of heat and the reactors would explode and you'd have a massive release of radioactivity because they...

Cookers will explode. buildings -- external buildings -- reactor buildings are already gone, so it's a pretty grave situation. i don't -- i'm not aware of how -- whether they can operate these valves automatically and whether the control settings are good enough for them to do that but from what -- the way the accident has unfolded it's very confusing of course for everyone but it doesn't seem that controlled to the extent it exists could last for very long if it is abandoned if it's abandoned and it is out of control, what kind of explosion would we be looking at? >> well, as i said, the reac...