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Dumping more coolant, more water into the reactor, that's slowly boiling off and being released which gives you minor releases, and they need electricity to run the valves, to monitor the system, et cetera they don't need a lot of electricity, they've got other reactors at the site, other diesel generators. they made it to get some form of generation running. i heard one report that they have an emergency generator they brought into the site. they have a good chance of getting this up and running before they have significant damage, but it's kind of nerve wracking. >> professor, lestlester, yo...

Inevitable meltdown? >> at this point, a meltdown is not inevitable. but it's a little hard to say -- each of these plants is designed a little differently. the company has been issuing frequent updates but hasn't said how long they can keep going in the stopgap method. what they're doing now is they have a pump that runs on steam, not electricity. as long as you're making heat, you have steam, the pump is dumping more coolant, more water into the reactor, that's slowly boiling off and being released which gives you minor releases, and they need electricity to run the valves, to monitor the sy...

And they need electricity to run the valves, to monitor the system, et cetera they don't need a lot of electricity, they've got other reactors at the site, other diesel generators. they made it to get some form of generation running. i heard one report that they have an emergency generator they brought into the site. they have a good chance of getting this up and running before they have significant damage, but it's kind of nerve wracking. >> professor lester, you obviously have seen many such situations in varying degrees. how serious do you think this one is in japan? >> well, actually there...

Not electricity. as long as you're making heat, you have steam, the pump is dumping more coolant, more water into the reactor, that's slowly boiling off and being released which gives you minor releases, and they need electricity to run the valves, to monitor the system, et cetera they don't need a lot of electricity, they've got other reactors at the site, other diesel generators. they made it to get some form of generation running. i heard one report that they have an emergency generator they brought into the site. they have a good chance of getting this up and running before they have signi...