that s the spent fuel rods that were sitting in those storage pools. they were still hot, still radioactive. now do you know where they are? they are in the building. they are slightly below the place where the explosion took place. almost like we lost half we lost the facade of an old west movie theater, you know? you go and take a look at an old western like gunsmoke. the buildings are here and there s a big facade on the building to make it look taller. that facade is gone. that was actually the attic where some of the gases and vapors were pumped up into. that s where the explosion was. slightly below that we have kind of a blowup view, so to speak, of the building itself. look at that. that is what it looks like now after that hydrogen explosion when it got so hot that hydrogen and oxygen disassociated. i know enough about this, at about 2200 degrees hydrogen and oxygen can come apart, h2o.
the oxygen comes apart from the hydrog hydrogen. when that happened, we blew up in three different spots. the spent fuel rods, back to that question, there s good news/bad news. the spent fuel rods don t have nearly the potential radiation. the bad news is they re not protected by any type of capsule. they re out there. they were under water in a pool, and they re not as radioactive. they re done being used as power, but they sit there in these plants until they re r really cool, at least a year and the water has dried up, heated up, so the radiation i have to ask quickly and then get to soledad. we know the radiation levels are really spiking at times. do we know where the radiation is going as it leaves the plant? no, we don t. and the better question is where it s coming from. we know something down below one of the reactors went from three atmospheres to one after the boom. that means there was pressure and then no pressure. clearly whatever vessel that