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Authorities in japan, for example, from the moment that they lost some the equipment to the time that they actually restored seawater injection, we don't know all of the decisions, we don't know why that was all made burk that was clearly the single event that caused the reactors themselves, the cord to fail, and that just can't happen. that's fundamental nuclear power 101 and things like that should never happen and we need to understand that and whatever lessons learned need to be incorporated into that. we saw that again in chernobyl. and here we are 25 years later, learning the same lesson...

Broken, certainly some has oxidized and left. but when people throw around the term fuel melt, people get sort of this apocalyptic scenario where are there pools and molten fuel laying on the bottom. and we can categorically say that is not the case. there are potentially some pellets laying around that potentially fuse together because they got hot but every indication is that we have, it is that, indeed, the fuel got hot. but it, in fact, did not melt. so that was a good thing. i think some the new designs tend to be more robust relative to operator error and a little bit more -- more robust...

Japan has been using seawater to try to avert this disaster. should they have been trying something else? all they are doing the best they can, re-establishing power at units five and six and doing so at unit one and two and trying to get seawater on the fuel rods but it could already have occurred, the fuel melt. >> is it time to do what i believe was suggested, and incase the flawed reactors in sand or cement? >>guest: well, what they have to do are stabilize the reactors and stabilize the fuel pools. what they are doing now is pumping seawater into the reactors and pumping water into the po...

Diesels kicked on and cooling the core and doing what they needed to do to keep the reactor under control. we think the tsunami then caused more damage and cut off their ability to continue to cool the core. so the reactor shut down safely. they did get cooling going then they lost about it an hour later. >> explain complete meltdown versus partial meltdown and how much fear do you have watching this that we're is going to see a complete meltdown? >> what you're talking about is fuel damage. as the fuel gets damaged it gets hotter and hotter and you melt some of the fuel. at three mile island ...

Diesels kicked on and cooling the core and doing what they needed to do to keep the reactor under control. we think the tsunami then caused more damage and cut off their ability to continue to cool the core. so the reactor shut down safely. they did get cooling going then they lost about it an hour later. >> explain complete meltdown versus partial meltdown and how much fear do you have watching this that we're is going to see a complete meltdown? >> what you're talking about is fuel damage. as the fuel gets damaged it gets hotter and hotter and you melt some of the fuel. at three mile island ...