Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110314:22:11:00
A meltdown? >> well, if we have a meltdown, jenk, what it means is that the fuel rods that are in the core, they begin to melt, and literally, as it says, the real fear, if you have a complete meltdown is that those fuel pellets inside that fuel rod go down and then they start to melt and they form like a -- it's been described to me like molten lava. and then they go down to the bottom of the reactor and then they have a nuclear reaction and then all this radioactivity goes out into the environment. that is the worst-case scenario, and they have struggled all day long with trying to cool off ...