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Short-lived isotopes like iodine are no longer there, so what is there is sees yum, stron see up, plutonium and other long lived isotopes. what's happening close to that reactor is probably really powerful gama rays, like an x-ray. when the fuel rods burn or become volatile like dr. von hippel said, when that happens, now particles are released. the particles are affecting people off site in the rain and falling on their clothing and things. my guess is the biggest problem is direct gamma rays, x-rays coming out of the fuel pool. >> those would be the things of most concern to the people on si...

Short-live d isotopes like iodine are no longer there, so what is there is cesium and strontiun and plutonium and other long-lived isotopes. what's happening close to that reactor is probably really powerful gamma rays, that's like an x-ray, but when the fuel rods burn or become volatile like dr. von hippel said, when that happens, now particles are released. so the particles are affecting the people off site in the rain and falling on their clothing and things like that. my guess is the biggest problem is direct gamma rays, direct x-rays coming out of the fuel pool. >> those would be the thin...

About 30 minutes they could no longer see anymore flames. obviously there's a cooling issue there. what are the risks and what needs to be done urgently? >> the urgent thing is you have to keep water going into that nuclear fuel pool. it's not being cooled. they are just pumping salt water in and it's boiling off. almost like a pot on the stove. it will keep boiling off. you have to make up for what's boiling off. if the water drops and fuel becomes exposed, it causes a very high gamma ray exposure on site. we almost had this here in the united states back in the '90s where a fuel pool began t...

It's released and then radioactive and then it's gone. so in eight seconds it's not going to make it to america. so the longer life isotopes may get into the wind and the jet stream which comes from the west. if you ever fly from new york to l.a., it always takes longer going from l.a. to new york. the wind is always coming from the west. so, yes, the wind could get here. seven to ten days after a major radiation exposure or leak. we haven't seen anything like the word majorette. let's hope it doesn't happen. but it's possible. but not yet. >> i just got to ask you this question. i don't know ...

Call the scooter store for free information today. jane: well, take a look at a balloon that was said to be, supposed to be sent into space. caused chaos when things didn't go as planned. nasa was about to launch the balloon in australia, broke free from its mooring, dragged its multimillion dollar payload just across the desert floor there. barely got off the 2k3wr0u7bd, slammed into a 4x4, narrowly missed some bystanders. thankfully, no one was hurt. designed to study gamma rays in space from about 25 miles above