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Basis is about 96%. there are strict technical specifications in place that don't allow reactors to operate beyond their licensed limb it. >> we're going to put up a map which shows the location of the indian point nuclear plant, less than 50 miles from times square and the so million people living here in new york city, not to mention the millions more in the surrounding areas. it's been ranked by the nrc as the u.s. plant with the highest risk of core damage in the event of an earthquake. the owner of the plan, energy corporation, has applied for a 20-year extension. do you think that makes ...

Of the chamber. that's what happens. they go to the bottom. but i told you last night this one is different than chernobyl. this one has all of the pellets still in a pressure cooker and it's covered. it's this. this is the containment. this is a wall of concrete and steel. it's the pressure cooker. so still, if this happens, nuclear meltdown, still no damage to the people outside of the plant. experts told me today that nuclear meltdown is much better to be described as core damage. not meltdown. next one you're hearing is the china syndrome. we can thank jane fon da for this one. in jane fon...

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Explosion. how significant is it? and how significant is it on a wider level that we've seen three of these? >> piers, it's a little difficult to tell. we've seen three of them. when you have a reactor that isn't cooled properly, the steam interacts with the metal surrounding the fuel rod. that gives off hydrogen. the hydrogen will explode pretty easily. the other two explosions were in the outer building. this explosion happened within the primary containment. and that's a worry. because if they break the primary containment open, they really have lost almost all the barriers to releases of r...

We are some place we've never been before. we have not had this kind of core damage. three mile island was core damage, but it was in a he ditch, more sturdy kind containment. and it was over. this has gone on for days. it's been a continuing struggle. nobody is quite certain about how a reactor core will behave as it gets to be more and more damaged. we know whatfrom what we've seen from outside the plant. we're now seeing fission products and the radioactive materials that are created during operations. and that means that the fuel rods have cracked open or perhaps broken open and the steam ...