Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110314:19:19:00
>> core damage is kind of the standard terminology for this stage of an accident where the cladding is starting to fail but the uranium has a much higher melting temperature than the other materials, and it will have to get a lot hotter for the uranium to melt. and that is what people kind of think of as the meltdown, when the uranium fuel melts. but right now we're in a core damage state. >> which is obviously not, thank goodness, the worst-case scenario, but is the worst-case scenario possible? is a meltdown, the core getting so hot that it begins to melt, possible? and if that's possible, w...
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