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Waste systems. we know that the gaseous waste system was destroyed in the explosions. if they don't deal with this, we are out of the apocalyptic scenarios of core melting and things like that. that's clearly no longer the issue. the prospect of potentially spilling massive quantities of highly contaminated water really, really worries me. >> what would you normally do with contaminated water? >> normally, anderson, we have systems where you process it through a sort of demineralizers and charcoal filters. you take the gaseous waste that's gone off and you process it as well to allow it to dec...

Trees, i worry that the accident management that's going on, that they're not being able to stay one or two steps ahead of the evolution. we should have known that there was going to be millions of gallons of contaminated water that needed to be addressed at some point in time. and the ability to handle that should have been something that got put in motion days ago, if not weeks ago. i mean, the fact of the matter is, these tanks are filling up, we continue to inject water. normal operations would have had them using their gaseous rad waste systems. we know that the gaseous waste system was d...

Was the one they were most worried about the core melting and that's why they decided to go for that reactor rather than the others. but as i say, that's just my best guess. >> in terms of what might happen and how they're sort of triaging the different reactors and the different areas of this plant that require attention, how concerned are you about the fission, nuclear fission process starting again, about there being a recriticality in one of these reactors or in one of the spent fuel pools? >> well, the truth is, rachel, it's actually very hard to know. these reactors and these spent fuel ...

Made the decision to go for unit 2 first. but if you remember, a couple of days ago there was an explosion. and unlike the explosions we saw at 1 and 3 that led to all that mangled mess on the outside of the plant, the explosion at 2 was on the inside of the plant, and it has potentially damaged that key giant concrete and reinforced -- reinforced concrete and steel tomb-like internal containment structure. so my guess, and this is only just a guess, is that when they made the decision about where they were going to lay this line to they decided that reactor 2 was the one they were most worrie...

Was the one they were most worried about the core melting and that's why they decided to go for that reactor rather than the others. but as i say, that's just my best guess. >> in terms of what might happen and how they're sort of triaging the different reactors and the different areas of this plant that require attention, how concerned are you about the fission, nuclear fission process starting again, about there being a recriticality in one of these reactors or in one of the spent fuel pools? >> well, the truth is, rachel, it's actually very hard to know. these reactors and these spent fuel ...