Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110313:15:06:00
To be very dangerous for children, infants, and pregnant mothers. >> okay. let's go through what should happen at these plants during a disaster? after a quake the nuclear plants, they shut down automatically, right? then you have back-up diesel generators. that's what pumps the water to cool down the reactors? >> well, the process that occurs is at first control rods are inserted that stop the reaction, but the core, the fuel, has a tremendous amount of radioactivity in it and as the radioactivity decays, it gives off a tremendous amount of heat, so there has to be water circulating through t...
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