they did in chernobyl. david lochbaum, nuclear engineer, director of nuclear safety project at the union of concerned scientists, thank you for helping us understand this, sir. this is a dramatic and bad night in this news, but i appreciate your time. thank you very much. thanks. there is a reason in the english language and in american english we use the word meltdown so much as a metaphor. that s because it always sounds like hyperbole. it sounds like you are overstating it no matter what context you use it in. when we mean the word literally, it is worth being precise. it is not a good idea to let your imagination run with it. the facts are understandable and on nights like tonight worth understanding. please stay with us.
again, an explosion is not the same as a meltdown. an explosion at a nuclear reactor is not the same as a nuclear explosion. what happens happened is that the inability to keep enough water circulating over the giant fuel rods, enough water to keep them cool, that has resulted in damaged nuclear fuel rods and that caused three explosions so far. and that provided us with the only conceivable thing that could make the whole world look at devastation this horrible and think we are as yet worried about something else, we are as yet worried about what might happen next, after this. joining us now, david lochbaum, a nuclear engineer and director of nuclear safety project of the union of concerned scientists. mr. lochbaum, thanks for being here. i appreciate your time. good afternoon, good evening, rachel. let me know first, i guess, if i got anything wrong there, if i got anything important wrong there or left anything important out.
japan, so it seems like the workers would be able to handle the other two units, and even the stricken unit at japan like they did in chernobyl. david lochbaum, nuclear engineer, director of nuclear safety project at the union of concerned scientists, thank you for helping us understand this, sir. this is a dramatic and bad night in this news, but i appreciate your time. thank you very much. thanks. there is a reason in the english language and in american english we use the word meltdown so much as a metaphor. that s because it always sounds like hi perp blee. it sounds like you are overstating it no matter what context you use it in. when we mean the word literally, it is worth being precise. it is not a good idea to let your imagination run with it. the facts are understandable and on nights like tonight worth understanding. please stay with us. together. it helps the largest of companies seize opportunity like the smallest of startups. it s the network
it may have resulted in a breach of the internal containment vessel for the first time, may have. we do not have confirmation on that, it may have. again, an explosion is not the same as a meltdown. an explosion at a nuclear reactor is not the same as a nuclear explosion. what happens happened is that the inability to keep enough water circulating over the giant fuel rods, enough water to keep them cool, that has resulted in damaged nuclear fuel rods and that caused three explosions so far. and that provided us with the only conceivable thing that could make the whole world look at devastation this horrible and think we are as yet worried about something else, we are as yet worried about what might happen next, after this. joining us now, david lochbaum, a nuclear engineer and director of nuclear safety project of the union of concerned scientists. mr. lochbaum, thanks for being here. i appreciate your time. good afternoon, good evening, rachel. let me know first, i guess, if i got
first two. it may have resulted in a breach of the internal containment vessel for the first time, may have. we do not have confirmation on that, it may have. again, an explosion is not the same as a meltdown. an explosion at a nuclear reactor is not the same as a nuclear explosion. what happens happened is that the inability to keep enough water circulating over the giant fuel rods, enough water to keep them cool, that has resulted in damaged nuclear fuel rods and that caused three explosions so far. and that provided us with the only conceivable thing that could make the whole world look at devastation this horrible and think we are as yet worried about something else, we are as yet worried about what might happen next, after this. joining us now, david lochbaum, a nuclear engineer and director of nuclear safety project of the union of concerned scientists. mr. lochbaum, thanks for being here. i appreciate your time. good afternoon, good evening,