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History. by comparison the three mile island accident was classified as a category five. earl yes on "american morning," former plant operator michael friedlander says while fukushima isn't exactly chernobyl, the signs aren't good. >> the power plant was severely damaged. we don't exactly know what the condition it's been in, but just one data point, the fact that we're sitting here a month after the event, still not on a long-term situation of core cooling, we still don't have a backup emergency power supply and still injecting off of water brought in by the u.s. navy several weeks ago is a d...
Condition it's been in, but one data point, the fact that we're sitting here a month after the event, we're still not on a long-term situation of core cooling, still don't have a backup emergency power supply, and we're still injecting off of water that was brought in by the u.s. navy several weeks ago, is a disturbing situation. and so what that indicates is that the power plant has been severely damaged. how you characterize another earthquake or another tsunami, could absolutely put us back where we were a month ago. >> michael frooedslander, thank you for joining us, appreciate your perspe...
Put our severals in the situation where we stop injecting water. that is the only means of cooling the cores. it illustrated better than i could have articulated the sense of urgency that tepco needs to take in terms of getting on the long-term method of core cooling. it's something we need to consider and people need to ask the what if questions. but honestly, other than that, there's really nothing more than can be done. >> you talked about the heat removal system. what do you mean? >> nuclear power plants are designed so when they shut down, we have systems -- it's a two-loop system. it's l...
How sustainable is this, first of all? >> well, you know, technically speaking, it can go on indefinitely, but exactly as the report that was reported from "the new york times," at the end of the day, we do need to get on the system of long it term core cooling. clearly these power plants with the tsunami, with the subsequent earthquake, these plants are so far outside of the design basis right now, we really don't have a good handle on precisely what's going on in them and the concerns that were brought up by the nuclear regulatory commission are quite valid and they do need to be considered....