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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...

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...

The explosion at that nuclear power plant. and that sent itself just tremors amongst many of us, looking at it, you think this is a nuclear power plant and there's an explosion? we're about to show our viewers right there. you think, how can that happen? that cannot be good for the nuclear power industry overall. >> absolutely not. and that's a very significant difference from three mile island. at three mile island, for the first two days of the accident, no one appreciated the seriousness of what was happening, and it wasn't until months and years later that we knew the extent of the fuel fa...