reactor that we now call santa susana. they obtained footage. and documents. of the inside of the melted core. the fuel swelled in size and structural damage was sustained. partial meltdown occurred in a reactor with no containment structure. the radioactivity was so high they had to open this huge garage-type door to try to vent the radioactivity out. to the rest of l.a. one scholar estimated that the release from the melt down could have been 250 times greater than that from three mile island. this is a smaller reactor. it had nothing to prevent the radio activity from getting out. the radiation was clear off the scale. whichever way the wind was blowing, that s where the radiation travels, of course.
the electrical supply to this facility. there is a backup supply but that could have been damaged too in this kind of attack and you might then have a fukushima type event where the coolant is unable to get into the reactor, the fuel rods over heat, they melt down, melt down a uranium sinks into the ground and you have radio activity in the ground and water supply and if hydrogen gas building up, you could see an explosion like fukushima and could go into the air, as well. all of these things are possible which is why it against international law to attack a nuclear power plant. there is a geneva convention prohibiting this. russia was the signature to this. another example of russia breaking international law, violating global norms. i agree, this was a terrorist attack on a nuclear plant, a terrorist happened to be wearing russian army uniforms. wow.
what looked, what it would look like if you re trying to penetrate, to try to do catastrophic damage, to try and release radio activity, or cause a meltdown. what i saw tonight was an attempt to either take over that facility, because of its obvious strategic importance for power, or to simply have them power down. and no more heat tomorrow, for ukraine. and send a message. it s still unclear quite frankly where the russian troops have gone, what this was all about, but i didn t see what a lot of people were panicking about, and that s because this is a teachable moment. here in the united states without going into a great deal of very sensitive detail, i can assure you that number one, an extra, an attack against a nuclear power plant here, and this is really true around the world, would be resisted fiercely by every federal resource and 24/7 robust security, guarantee that, and number two, it s extremely hard to do catastrophic damage via
and dangerous. it has not released any radio activity in the atmosphere. they have not attacked a reactor. they believe it to be a training building, dormitory. it depends on who you talk to on the ground. a fire deliberately caused this close to an active reactor where ukraine gets most of its energy, a huge amount is another escalation and step up. and you do really have to ask whether this is an actual order from the ground to actually attack a nuclear plant. there s literally no military reason for that whatsoever. christiane, as ministers are meeting which they look at almost limitless escalation to fire at a nuclear plant, whether at order or not, almost
troops into a combat position against russia, whether putting drones up in the skies over ukraine, whether securing volodymyr zelensky and others with sturdy contractors, we cannot sit on the sidelines, we cannot continue to argue that poking the bear is not going to lead to further destruction when clearly the bear is rampaging across europe. yeah, joe. i heard you agree there, feel free to weigh in, understanding your primary concern what you think most likely this is about choking off power and energy to other parts of the country, i have to ask, how would a radiation leak impact people across europe? oh, hugely. you can look the chernobyl scale disaster a off the charts it was the worst disaster it sent a plume of radio activity