CNN CNN Newsroom With Pamela Brown June 4, 2024 22:10:00
The rods melt together and the whole melted core falls through the retainment vessels, facilities, and then into the atmosphere, into the ground water, and you're looking at plumes of radioactivity spreading over hundreds or even thousands of square kilometers. there is nothing you can do at that point. that is what you're worried about here in addition to operator error maybe causing such an accident, russian shells hitting some of the spent fuel rods, causing lesser but still lethal radioactive leaks. there are a number of ways that this facility could turn into a nuclear catastrophe. way to...