for the people of japan? worst case is a core meltdown which hundreds of tons of fuel in that turning into metal and they burn right through the reactor vessel, through the containment facility and you have that in the open air spewing radioactivity, very highly radioactive material into the ground, into the water, into the air and it could form a plume and have a knock nuclear fire, a plume of hot gasses rising into the atmosphere headed east, toward the united states and the radioactivity would spread into the atmosphere and would hit the united states, the air around in japan for continues of square kilometers would be a danger zone and would be uninhabitable for a very, very long time. and as we understand it, and this could be changes but there is already an evacuation area
your brakes, it would shut it off. you take that and move it up to a nuclear power plant and now it goes in and it will turn off the lubrication for the reactor or the containment facility, anything of that nature, without the businesses really knowing what s going on or the people behind the keyboards. in this case, the nuclear facility in iran, that appears to be what happened. that nuclear facility is not on the dwrid. it s a free standing facility. how is it that an outside government or group of any kind could instahl a worm that does what you re describing? that s the key here is the vector of the attack. any worm that goes out there for any purpose, be it to steal financial data or shut down a some of this nature, you ve got to get it in there.
so much trepidation and troubles in the gulf. they have been waiting to do it, because of a hydraulic leak in some part of this containment facility. and let s go to david mattingly to see what exactly is happening. david, you re in new orleans, and we are waiting i guess it could be under way right now as far as we know. right. as far as we know, that test going straight ahead to determine if this static kill is going to work. you just referenced that video, the shot underneath the ocean there of the well area. nothing going on there. we hope that it stays that way. and that s one of the things they ll be looking at as this test goes on. if this well can handle the pressure of that mud going in and pushing that oil down. this test is going to tell them if that static kill is going to work, and then how they might have to go about the static kill of how quickly they might be able to put the mud in there to essentially kill this well. but earlier today, admiral allen again was talki
meltdown is coming. no. no. bring the, bring my m&m nuclear power plant in here. this is what it means. remember, i showed you this last night. here is the containment facility. here is the reactor in here and there is water in here. and what this means is the nuclear rods here, they re controlled by water because you want the water to boil and make steam. so now these rods are exposed, like that. that s it. it just means the water has boiled down to expose the rods which it shouldn t have done. we knew that was going to happen. it sinks below the rods and can no longer effectively cool the rods. if they aren t cool, they will eventually melt so far, the exposure time hasn t been significant enough. that leads you to the next one. nuclear melt down! in our society, that means usually somebody has gone postal. but in this case, it doesn t.
reactor number three for a few days. there was a breach in containment of reactor no. two, the first breach of containment facility since chernobyl. people who don t do nuclear speak, help us understand. it s bad. it s bad and getting worse. does that help? it s hard not to put it in the context of things like three mile island. when people hear chernobyl, that does not even seem like descriptive enough. it cannot be that. it will never be that bad. i was there. chernobyl spewed radiation way up into the air. it did not even have containment. that is the major difference. they had a small atomic bomb that spread out into the countryside and killed a lot of people instantly. a lot of people over the next