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That would probably be the worst kind of scenario, there would be some time for the operators and people in the area to try to fill in the breach and try to prevent the spread of radioactive activity. >> sean: what is the likelihood, and how many miles around the perimeter of this power plant would we likely see or pick up levels of radiation that are dangerous to human beings? >> i think there's a lot of unknowns that go into that. the first one is the direction of the prevailing winds. if there's a strong wind, it will actually carry the radio activity -- think of like dust and if it picks i...

And we don't -- you know, many countries like united states, we don't know what to do with radioactive waste, so we put them to places zoned nuclear which is right next to a nuclear power plant. that stored nuclear fuel waste, radiated fuel rods are serially radioactive. that's many times more radio activity than when the chernobyl power plant blew. that's why the ukrainian foreign minister said the other night, if something were to happen to this plant, thousands times worse than chernobyl. >> it's killing to even think about it. dr. kate brown, thank you. ukrainian officials are accusing r...

Rather large amount of radio activity in the fuel being stored there. the other reactors, of course, both the spent fuel in the pools, and the reactor itself. and the concern i have particularly there is less a direct attack on the reactor itself, the reactor core. i would just observe at least in the united states the containment vessel for the core, the airplane crash, but that should not be very comforting because the plant depends on so many other systems not hardened on back-up generators, electricity supply and cooling, the fuel from the back-up generators. there are many of those system...

Aftermath. >> the home of 50,000 people, plant workers and their families is nowei deserted. helicopters pass overhead to measure the radio activity which is several hundred times more than normalun but millions of times less than it was in the days after the accident. also deserted is the town of chernobyl, and farm villages in the surrounding area several hundred square miles. two years ago, this was a thick forest of pine trees. now, only one tree stands. but this tree too is dying. >> now, that thick forest of pine trees came to be called the red forest because of all of the reddish color ...

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