plant and destroyed back-up power supplies and basically the plant wasn t able to cool itself. you could ultimately have fuel melting, releases of raideration into the environment. i think russia should get out of ukraine and it should stay well away from all of ukraine s power plants. fighting around them is unacceptably dangerous and risky. thank you for your expertise on this. thank you so very much. and the lens of war. how a pulitzer-prize winning photo journalist is capturing the toll of the cries in ukraine. and members of a kyiv city
groundwater? what we have at this point, i would say, is a little bit more good news than bad. the first ten days of this crisis were just bad news after bad news, explosions, fuel melting. we do seem to be on a trajectory toward better news, but we re not out of the woods yet. when we do get out of the woods, what we then need is sort of a captain kirk calling scotty in the control room and saying, all right, scotty, i need to know exactly what s wrong with our ship. and that s what we need to wait for. it s very frustrating, but we need to have solid measurements, confidence in those measurements and, really, a full damage assessment. jenna: all right. certainly a lot more to this story as you so appropriately point out, paul. thank you so much for your expertise today. look forward to talking to you again. thank you. jenna: interesting stuff. still going to be a big story. gregg: yeah, it sure is. jenna: american troops are helping the rebels in libya. president obama says we re t
buildings. that steam has come from the reactor itself. we have some indication in the unit two reactor that there may have been some degree of fuel overheating and some form of fuel melting. whether or not that plutonium may have come from the spent fuel pool in unit three or some of the other reactors or as a result of the containment venting that has been going on over the days. it is difficult to tell. at the end of thematter where i coming from. it needs to be taken care of. talk about the radioactive water we have been seeing. where do you put that water? well, you know, from other issues that have occurred at nuclear power plants around the world, there are a number of ways of handling this. it is not uncommon to bring in temporary storage tanks that you can pump the water into.
must have normally the plutonium would have stayed inside the reactor fuel itself. so this is a bit of concern, maybe more than a bit, because it shouldn t have been released. and so there must be some sort of fuel melting, i think. many experts would agree that at least that s happened. what the pathway is to the outside, i think nobody knows yet. james, thank you so much for coming on with us. i appreciate that. certainly. happy to. here s a look at what s happening today. the senate returns to capitol hill in a little more than an hour and they have got a lot of work on their plate, especially with the budget. april 8th, the deadline is looming for a possible government shutdown. tucson shooting victims, their families, religious leaders, community leaders and law enforcement officials kick off a national campaign this afternoon to push congress to fix the nation s gun background check system. and at 7:30 p.m. eastern time, president obama will address the american peopl
how much water is in those pools. if the water level starts to drop and the rods start to overheat.cladding can get to a temperature where it essentially com busts and burns. not like a piece of paper, but a similar result. if that happens, then we re going to end up getting slumping and fuel melting in those pools. they don t have the same kind of containment that the reactor core does. so that s a very dangerous situation. you re saying if there is some water that would still happened versus no water at all? that had very well happen at the top of the rod. we believe any amount of water is better than none. even if the water is boiling, the steam vapors can cool too. any water is better. as we look ahead, what is it that you re looking for? . positive resolution really involves figuring out a way to