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Back off and say, wait a minute, that's a miscalculation. it's not that bad. it is bad but not that bad. now, how bad is it? well, that water, that pool of water that is around the four reactors there is so radioactive that some radiologists tell me that workers standing in the water for one hour is exposed to four times his annual amount of radiation. so is that lethal? maybe not. is it healthy? certainly not. so a major problem that still surrounds the fukushima plant. how do you get rid of it? what do you do with it? and how do you get the cooling operations back in order to keep the core c...

By this company in which they were trying to explain what the two of you, jim and you were speculating on. and they do say now that there was a sound of an explosion in the suppression pool inside the chamber. and they do say that workers are being evacuated though 50 workers will remain on site to try to carry out the continuing cooling operations. obviously, number two reactor is something much different than the other two explosions has happened which is now prompted the evacuations. and as you said, elliott, there is a lot of information coming from this one company, from this one company ...

>> well, there's multiple things to consider here. one of them is that the risk that if there is a meltdown, they'd have to evacuate the entire site. and that would put all the sort of jury-rigged cooling operations that are going on there right now at risk of not being able to take place at all, which would then put -- i don't like to be a scare mongererer, but it basically means that the rest of the site is at risk, if that happens. but even if it doesn't happen, there's the ongoing risk of the releases that are going on right now through the venting process. the meltdown risk is another ris...