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Been a partial meltdown at the reactor that we know called the santa susana field lab. they obtained documents and photos and also film footage. >> 13 of the 43 uranium fuel elements eventually became overheated. the fuel swelled and size and structural damage was sustained. >> a partial meltdown occurred in the reactor that had no containment structure. the activity was so high that they had to open this huge garage typed or to try to vent the radioactivity out. one scholar had estimated that the radio active iodine from the meltdown could have been 250 tons greater than the amount released -...

Sieben Atom-Reaktoren laufen in Deutschland noch – ohne verpflichtende Nachrüstungen und ausreichenden Schutz, kritisiert der Umweltverband BUND. Für ihn wäre ein sofortiger Atomausstieg möglich, ohne die Stromversorgung zu gefährden. Zuletzt exportierte Deutschland so viel Strom, wie fünf AKW erzeugen.

The geologist believes that the science is advanced enough that we can start building final storage sites. you. the computer program viewer to us will soon allow scientists to conduct safety tests in a virtual final repository class for apple knows that the longer we search for the perfect side the more critical the temporary storage above ground will become. again as it turned the end of the lifetime of an interim storage site i have to move the spent fuel elements i can leave it in the car six research has been done into the changes that this fuel will undergo over those periods of time let'...

Pool, and if the fuel elements are exposed and they're not covered with water, the radiation levels on top of the pool, over top of the pool, can easily be 1,000 times higher than alongside of the pool, because the pool itself is surrounded with many, many feet of concrete and concrete from the building structure even without the water. >> the fukushima power plant, it's old. designed 50 years ago, in the '60s. put online in 1971. do you think the older reactors should be shut down? >> a lot of that depends on where they're located, and the final safety analysis report and whether or not they'...

-- pretty fast as they were vented out of the plant. so levels were extremely low. this is a very different situation. we have some fraction of the core has melted. releasing some products to the atmosphere as they're relieving pressure in this system. it's very much more grave situation. the radiation levels they're recording, they're pretty significant. >> and glenn, let me ask you about this, is this uncharted territory? is there a plan moving forward? has -- have they come back from this brink before? >> to my knowledge, i don't think we've pushed a plant this hard. you know, there have be...