Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110317:19:10:00
Cooling it, how does it difficulter from chernobyl? >> chernobyl was an operating reactor that suffered a criticality explosion where the reactor itself blew up. it had no containment. here we have a very large quantity of spent nuclear fuel, more than chernobyl. it's -- a lot of it is outside, most of it is outside reactors. it can burn if it becomes exposes to the air. if it's hot enough, fresh enough from the reactor. the amount of radio nuke collides are tremendous and it has to be kept from burning, from starting a self-propagating cladding fire that could spread millions of radio cesium ...
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