Likelihood of serious danger to those in and around the area where this reactor is, where this nuclear plant is, and the danger potentially to the west coast of the united states? i think the west coast of the united states is thousands of miles away. i don t think we need to be concerned about that at this point. but certainly there is a danger to people around. they evacuated. but it is a danger people working there. the brave guys in there trying to cope with the accident. and just what the details are and what dose they would give you think you have to know a whole lot more than you know now. we know here, anyway. megyn: thank you so much. all the best to you, sir. megyn: if you would like to help the victims of this devastating earthquake. you can head to our web site at foxnews.com. there we have information on several organizations work on
Reactor. a partial melt joins some portion of that, that s a lot of melting. the partial isn t really take away from the seriousness of it. i think this is a more serious than the 3 mile island accident. even those iaea sit was the other way around. there are more reactors involved, and in three mile island we didn t lose power. i would put it in a more serious category. megyn: there is a question about whether these fuel rods are not cooled adequately there will be a melting on the bottom of the reactor. there is a question about whether the bottom of the reactor in japan can hold. it wasn t designed to hold hot fuel like that. is that likely now that we are told we have been totally exposed that these fuel rods were completely exposed more than once and they haven t been able the adequately cool them? it depends how much water
Today that american nuclear facilities are built to withstand earthquakes and tsunamis but would not say if they could handle a 9.0 quake. as you mentioned american authorities are working to get relief to the japanese. they are also sending some nuclear experts there to help out, here at the white house today they say are lessons learned incident. as we get more information from japan and what happened there that can be incorporated, but right now, you know, we are remain committed to the clean energy standard and the aspects of the president s cleaning energy plan. the united states nuclear energy has suffered setbacks in the past. it was coming off a quiet 30 years or so since the 3-mile island accident in 1979. some suggest it would be wise to be cautious now. it calls on us here in the u.s. naturally not to stop building nuclear power plants but to put the brakes on right
Until you have fuel rods exposed. it s hot steam interacting with the thin tubing that in which the uranium fuel, thousands of these tubes in the reactor. to have that much hydrogen means they had to have been exposed for a long time and had to have been at elevated temperatures, say 2,000 degrees. very likely the fuel is damaged, too. megyn: let me interrupt you so those of us without your education on this can try to hang with you on this. to put it in terms i think folks can understand. you say this what is we are seeing there is more significant i won t say worse more significant than three mile island as in the accident there which was a partial meltdown. in pennsylvania. people say partial meltdown. you have 100 tons of fuel in the