Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110316:00:03:00
They had been shut down prior to the earthquake and the tsunami, but in being shut down, they removed the fuel rods from those reactors and put them in this temporary storage area. so these are relatively hot waste rods that are generating a lot of radiation. and they need to be cooled. what's happened apparently is either a failure in the water pumps or some other problem such that the water level may be declining, or the water may be boiling off, which would put them at risk for disaster. and it may be, and we do not know. we simply do not know. the culture hasn't told us, that it may be thi...
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