Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110317:00:32:00
It's held to something like 1 1/2 so these are very, very high rates. they're nothing like what you're talking about. >> so, victor, just to follow up, if that is the measured level of radiation right now, is it fair to presume that probably that is coming from these spent fuel ponds that don't have water in them? >> well, yes, apparently at least in unit 4, the -- they dried it out or nearly dried it out, the fuel -- what happens at first is the cladding or the tubing which the fuel pellets are put for -- in fuels like 14 feet long, that reacts with hot steam to form hydrogen. you had a hydro...
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