they will not have been a problem keeping the backup generators going and the backup battery going in case they went down. we got a close look at a spent fuel rod pool. remember the reactor at the fukushima daiichi reactor, the water level keeps going down. now here they re saying that couldn t happen because they actually have prior hoses brought on the outside, laced through the building itself so that it can w manually pumpater back into the pool if the water level starts to go down. this entire time the one message they keep driving home is this is going to be a lot safer. and you donee to worry after seeing what happened in japan that would not happen here. you can never say positively. the japanese may have said the same thing.
the grid. and when the grid got knocked down, then you go to the diesel generator and then the backup battery and they all failed. when that happens, you re not getting water in to cover the rods and the water level goes down and then you have exposed rods and you can have melting. and that s what they are desperately trying to avoid. and they clearly made a decision, some people call it a hail mary pass, some people call it a last-ditch effort, but they ve decided to pour seawater in there, because the most important thing is to get those rods cooled down and to prevent melting. and in pouring in the seawater, for all intents and purposes, the experts i ve talked to said they ve lost use of those reactors. you know, it reminds me of being a kid and growing up and driving old cars and overheated engines because the water s not cooling the engine, but in this case, it s serious business, as you and i know. it s not just one car along the side of the road with an overheated engine. her
they pump water into them. they use the term coolant, but it s just water. and that pump runs from power on the grid. and when the grid got knocked down, then you go to the diesel generator and then the backup battery and they all failed. when that happens, you re not getting water in to cover the rods and the water level goes down and then you have exposed rods and you can have melting. and that s what they are desperately trying to avoid. and they clearly made a decision, some people call it a hail mary pass, some people call it a last-ditch effort, but they ve decided to pour seawater in there, because the most important thing is to get those rods cooled down and to prevent melting. and in pouring in the seawater, for all intents and purposes, the experts i ve talked to said they ve lost use of those reactors. you know, it reminds me of being a kid and growing up and driving old cars and overheated engines because the water s not cooling the engine, but in this case, it s seriou