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These valves automatically and whether the control settings are good enough for them to do that but from what -- the way the accident has unfolded it's very confusing of course for everyone but it doesn't seem that controlled to the extent it exists could last for very long if it is abandoned if it's abandoned and it is out of control, what kind of explosion would we be looking at? >> well, as i said, the reactors themselves are like pressure cookers and the steam will build up. it's got a lot of heat and the reactors would explode and you'd have a massive release of radioactivity because they...

Where do we stand at this hour? how are things the way you see it? >> well, i think some things are not deteriorating and others new tragedies and difficulties seem to be unfolding every day. so the initial reactor where the trouble started, number one, they had that hydrogen explosion. it blew the roof off. and as i've been saying, the place to worry about, number one, and also number three, is the central pools which store the highly radioactive waste which are just as vulnerable to meltdown and fires and dispersal of radioactivity as the reactor, in some ways more vulnerable because they're...

And the other thing is that in fact it is more than a crack in the roof of this facility. they are big holes in the walls, have been blown by that hydrogen explosion. >> does that mean with a crack to the roof but also big damage to the walls, does that mean any radiation being emitted from the damaged spent fuel rods is already just being emitted openly to the air? >> pretty much. some of it might play out on the wall to cool, and some of it might be plating out on the walls, but there are big holes that a large fraction of it could escape from. >> can the spent fuel rods at number 4 be made ...

Trouble started, number one, they had that hydrogen explosion. it blew the roof off. and as i've been saying, the place to worry about, number one, and also number three, is the central pools which store the highly radioactive waste which are just as vulnerable to meltdown and fires and dispersal of radioactivity as the reactor, in some ways more vulnerable because they're more exposed. and the other thing that happened today is the pool in reactor four had a fire and hydrogen explosion and poked a hole in the reactor building and that seems to be venting radioactivity. some of the outside rad...

The buildings are already gone with the hydrogen explosion. the additional radioactivity in the spent fuel pools, and that could also be released and in the worst case, you know, there would be so much fallout that the evacuated areas and somewhat beyond could become uninhabitable for quite a bit of time. this is sort of a chernobyl type of scenario and in chernobyl about 400 square miles remain uninhabitable 25 years later. and food had to be dumped hundreds and hundreds of miles away. not for a long time but in germany and scandinavia they had to collect the radioactive food. there was signi...