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>> and the containment if the worst case scenario occurred in the plant and there was what we called a melt down, what is the effect? is the effect like an explosion? like a nuclear bomb going off or simply what gets released into the air around that area? >> no, it wouldn't be as dramatic. the scenario is this. the fuel in a normal nuclear reactor is in solid form in the form of rods. if that fuel overheats and melts, it essentially becomes like a lava, which would then flow down into the floor of the vessel that contains it, and it is hot enough at that point that it could eat a hole in the ...

Plant that made pest i sides. contamination would last nor a considerable amount of time. you would get nothing more than steam explosion, fire. there's no nuclear explosion to any of this. >> so there's nothing that i could do to a nuclear reactor to create the parallel event or energy release of an atoum bomb, crest? >> no, none at all. >> representative price, what is the political reception in georgia to the possibility of these nuclear plants being built in georgia in the context of some of the fear and fantasy surrounding nuclear power for a long time in this country? >> dylan, thanks. i...