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The emergency electrical power. that's when the troubles began. viewers should know that when the reactors shut down there is still a lot of energy that needs to be taken away, a lot of radioactive materials that are still decaying, and that decay will fall off over time. so all the short-lived radioactive material that will decay over a period of days to a few weeks. we are still in a critical periodment it's probably going to take another couple of weeks or so in order to get that radioactive decay down to the level where pooling can keep taking that heat away and stabilize the plant. jenna:...

Ultimately flashs to steam and turns a turbine. they immediately install rods to bring the radioactive decay down to subcritical but they have leftover heat and residual radiation that has to be brought under control it will happen naturally within a few days. they are dog the best they can. a total meltdown only occurred at three mile island in 1979. that was a disaster of nuclear plant considered 10 times more serious than fukushima. the rods did meltdown, fell to the floor of the reactor building. and they only melted 5/8 of an inch into 5 inches of steel before they cooled and the situatio...

Or tepko told everyone that they had the fire out. then it started again today. and what tepko is trying to convince us now is that it started today because they never actually but the it out yesterday. that would mean it's been burning all along. or that the water levels have dropped so far they can't get enough water in there that it's exposed. either one of those is a horrible situation. >> yes. my understanding is that the temperature by this cooling pool is so high that they can't -- they literally can't just walk up to it and put a hose on the top and put water. in it's just too hot it c...

Create the hot water that ultimately flashs to steam and turns a turbine. they immediately install rods to bring the radioactive decay down to subcritical but they have leftover heat and residual radiation that has to be brought under control it will happen naturally within a few days. they are dog the best they can. a total meltdown only occurred at three mile island in 1979. that was a disaster of nuclear plant considered 10 times more serious than fukushima. the rods did meltdown, fell to the floor of the reactor building. and they only melted 5/8 of an inch into 5 inches of steel before th...

There's huge defense and depth on these plans. they were designed to operate through an 8.2 quake. they survived this earthquake the tsunami took out some of the back-up systems. the ultimate back of up has been the reactor containment which are working. seawater option was built into the plant. this was not anticipated. it is something you don't want to do. you don't want to put seawater into the facility. but it was planned as an ultimate back-up if you needed it and it is working. >> sean: we hearing meltdown. when we talk about nuclear anything, that i assume people's minds go towards nucl...