Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110316:00:11:00
The other reactors, it isn't as if the spent -- the fuel rods are sticking up out of that water. very likely they have failed, and they've collapsed and fallen down to the bottom of the reactor. we're not going to know what the condition of those reactors is for a year -- assuming that it doesn't get worse than it is now, which we hope it won't. but assuming it doesn't, even then we won't find out what the condition of those reactors was for years. we didn't find out at three mile island for about five years that half the fuel had melted. and that was a shock. we didn't know then until we hope...