Stopgap Method News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Tremendous reporting. Should read their deeply sourced reporting about all of that. It is fascinating and devastating at the same time. Yes, exactly those two things, yes. Have a good weekend. You too. In august of 2020, donald trump was campaigning for reelection. We were in the throes of the covid19 pandemic. The summer saw a wave of protests and up risings over the murders of george floyd. To top it all off, the state of california was experiencing its largest wildfire season in recorded history. And it was that last crisis that prompted donald trump to say this during a campaign rally in p...

Produce heat. you need election terrorist run the valves, pumps, and -- electricity to run the valves, pumps, and apparently the tsunami knocked out the emergency generators. the batteries won't last forever, they're rushing to find an alternate form of electricity. they don't have a lot of time do this, but so far they don't have a lot of damage either. they're really racing to get things set up before the battery power is lost. >> and how long do we have here? what is the hour-by-hour time scale that we could be looking at before there's some sort of inevitable meltdown? >> at this point, a ...

Inevitable meltdown? >> at this point, a meltdown is not inevitable. but it's a little hard to say -- each of these plants is designed a little differently. the company has been issuing frequent updates but hasn't said how long they can keep going in the stopgap method. what they're doing now is they have a pump that runs on steam, not electricity. as long as you're making heat, you have steam, the pump is dumping more coolant, more water into the reactor, that's slowly boiling off and being released which gives you minor releases, and they need electricity to run the valves, to monitor the sy...

Fukushima plant? >> when you shut down the new york plant, you're continuing to produce heat. you need election terrorist run the valves, pumps, and -- electricity to run the valves, pumps, and apparently the tsunami knocked out the emergency generators. the batteries won't last forever, they're rushing to find an alternate form of electricity. they don't have a lot of time do this, but so far they don't have a lot of damage either. they're really racing to get things set up before the battery power is lost. >> and how long do we have here? what is the hour-by-hour time scale that we could be ...

Some time, but apparently the tsunami knocked out the emergency diesel generators. they have batteries. the batteries won't last forever, they're rushing to find an alternate form of electricity. they don't have a lot of time to do this, but so far they don't have a lot of damage either. they're really racing to get things set up before the battery power is lost. >> and how long do we have here? what is the hour-by-hour time scale that we could be looking at before there's some sort of inevitable meltdown? >> at this point, a meltdown is not inevitable. but it's a little hard to say -- each of...