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So you get a sense of the scale. but here's what's interesting, anderson. this has been a series of failures from the beginning. this is from nhk, the japanese television. essentially, what you had was this reactor core started heating up after the accident. the pumps kicked in that are supposed to cool it down. but then they had an electrical failure. and the pumps went dead. so a bunch of diesel pumps kicked in then. and they were running. and then they went dead. it's not yet clear why. maybe the tsunami did this. then another set of battery pumps kicked in. they worked for a while and then...

This uranium rod in here can go up to about 2,200 degrees in terms of the heat it can produce. but it melts at about 2,100 degrees. so the truth is if you can't keep enough water in there to keep it cooled down, it will start melting on itself. and what jim was talking about was the different chambers here. this is the reactor part itself. the concern earlier this evening, all the worry was not only did they have a problem here, but this, the outer container, which is the last line of defense when they had that explosion this morning, they had a drop in pressure inside here, which would sugges...

This uranium rod in here can go up to about 2,200 degrees in terms of the heat it can produce. it melts at about 2,100 degrees. if you can't keep enough water in there to keep it cooled down, it will start melting on itself, and what jim was talking about was the different chambers. this is the reactor part itself. the concern earlier this evening, all the worry was, that not only did they have a problem here, but this, the outer container, which is the last line of defense when they had that explosion this morning, they had a drop in pressure inside here, which would suggest that there was so...

They're all close to each other in this area, when we talk about where the concern is. and i can give you a sense of the size of this. this also helps. this is video of reactors at some point in the past. you get a sense of how big the actual reactor is. here it is coming up, that's the reactor part. and you see the workers. you get a sense of the scale. here's what's interesting, this has been a series of issues from the beginning. they had an electrical failure and the pumps that cool the reactor down stopped running. it's not clear why, maybe the tsunami did this. then another set of batter...

Here it is coming up. that's the reactor part. you see the workers down here next to it, so you get the sense of the scale. here's what's interesting, this this has has been a failure of a series of failures from the beginning. they had an electrical failure and the pumps that cool the reactor down stopped running. it's not clear why, maybe the tsunami did this. then another set of battery pumps kicked in, they worked for a while and then they went dead. it appears maybe the batteries ran out. it's not entirely clear. they started pumping sea water into this area to try to solve the problem. w...