of people that were at the airport and the type of damage that we have. again, as you mentioned, we have a high percentage of windows blown out in our c concourse that serves air tran, frontier and american airlines. we had a number of windows blown out in our terminal one, our historic terminal, that was built in 1956. and then a lot of the pictures you re probably airing this morning are some of the damage outside of that terminal, which we had a lot of cars impacted. i know we had a shuttle van that was langing off the terminal parking garage. a lot of sign structures that were blown down. right now the airport is still on a backup generator. we re basically on our emergency systems. you can understand why we cannot open the airport at this time. one more thing, how many people do you estimate you had in your airport terminal, between the passengers, you have a lot of people working there as well? how many people were there? it seems remarkable that you had as few injuries as you
actually in every way this is way, way, way beyond three mile island. there s really very little comparison. three mile island, the problem was that the operators had turned off the emergency cooling, mistakenly fortunately turned it back on in a couple of hours and basically the damage part of the accident was over at that point. here, you ve got containments breached, none of the emergency systems are working, power is out. all of these things were working at three mile island. so and the releases are far greater here. whether he we talk about the problems in fukushima, we re really primarily in an emergency basis talking about the spent fuel. that is a critical issue, the spent fuel that s been exposed. right. what about the time frame to get more water into those pools? well, it s hard to know exactly without knowing the details.
saw you look at the distance between tokyo and los angeles, it s actually we re looking at one of those explosions right now in the stock footage. it s pretty scary. let me ask you, how long will there be a danger over there, a couple weeks, three weeks, four weeks? how long will this go on? i think it s indeterminant at this point. if they can keep the water on the spent fuel pools and if they can re-establish power at the reactors themselves, which they appear to be doing, hopefully why is that good to re-establish power? the reason they need to re-establish power is to get the cooling power capabilities back into the reactor so you re simply not putting in sea water. you re actually using the emergency systems within the plant itself to keep the fuel like a car with a water-cooled engine. right, exactly, yeah. how long you re our expert here, so most americans are out
if they can keep the water on the spent fuel pools and if they can re-establish power at the reactors themselves, which they appear to be doing, hopefully why is that good to re-establish power? the reason they need to re-establish power is to get the cooling power capabilities back into the reactor so you re simply not putting in sea water. you re actually using the emergency systems within the plant itself to keep the fuel like a car with a water-cooled engine. right, exactly, yeah. how long you re our expert here, so most americans are out there worried, buying iodine pills on the west coast, we hear today. they re probably wearing out the cvs, whoever s selling this stuff. this will not be a major issue for the united states. the important thing to keep in mind, there is a vast difference between what we can detect for radiation, and we can detect microscopic amounts of it, in the parts per billion, versus that which is meaningfully going to affect human health.
the reason they need to re-establish power is to get the cooling power capabilities back into the reactor so you re simply not putting in sea water. you re actually using the emergency systems within the plant itself to keep the fuel like a car with a water-cooled engine. right, exactly, yeah. how long you re our expert here, so most americans are out there worried, buying iodine pills on the west coast, we hear today. they re probably wearing out the c v cvs, whoever s selling this stuff. this will not be a major issue for the united states. the important thing to keep in mind, there is a vast difference between what we can detect for radiation, and we can detect microscopic amounts of it, in the parts per billion, versus that which is meaningfully going to affect human health. so, we don t have to worry about the par tick late landing on us. no, we don t. we don t have to worry about it beaming on us. that s correct. do we have to worry about the plants meltin