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Informed the hill is that once that pool -- that fuel is uncovered by the water -- see, the water serves to both keep it cool and as a form radiation shielding. >> right. >> so if the spent fuel sun covered, then the radiation nearby becomes life-threatening. >> robert, the obvious followup -- we were just talking about this yesterday, is this was a concern yesterday as well with the spent fuel rods and they had talked about sending in the helicopters and dousing these storage pools with cold water, but those helicopters had to bail because of the steam coming up. the steam was full of radiati...
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