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These buildings. what does that tell you? >> well, i think anderson cooper had it right. there's a lot of rubble there. and it isn't clear that once they get the electricity to the pumps that are in those buildings that the pumps will work. and if the pumps work, it's not clear that the pipes that are connected to them will work. so getting the electricity's critical, but it's not game over at that point. it's a real big question about whether or not they'll be able to get water in. on unit 4 this picture is a little hard to see, but there's a definite crack in the side of unit 4. and that's w...
Water that came in and prevented any of the back-up coolant operations from going forward? >> that's precisely right. the whole issue is trying to keep that reactor cool. as we have discussed before, it's like an ovp. if i put a pan in the oven, it gets hot. if i shut off the oven and i go in and reach for that pan, i'm going to burn myself because the pan is still hot even though the oven was turned off. the plant was shut down but it's still generating heat. the tsunami knocked out all the back-up generators. so there's no electricity to pump in cool water. there may have also been a problem...