rather large amount of radio activity in the fuel being stored there. the other reactors, of course, both the spent fuel in the pools, and the reactor itself. and the concern i have particularly there is less a direct attack on the reactor itself, the reactor core. i would just observe at least in the united states the containment vessel for the core, the airplane crash, but that should not be very comforting because the plant depends on so many other systems not hardened on back-up generators, electricity supply and cooling, the fuel from the back-up generators. there are many of those systems that could be at considerable risk in addition to what we already discussed, the high stress levels for the staff
authorities in control of it and allowed them to go home but they are controlling the town they were going home to. we are watching the plant, something worries because in the course of this war russian forces have targeted not one but two nuclear facilities. in the case of the one at a chernobyl coming within 1500 feet of the reactor itself, could have been a different story. these are sketchy reports we are getting from this nuclear plant, right next door, russian forces have regained it and those who work at the plant are under russian control but it is the focus of the western part of the country that i wouldn t say is immune to this war but not the focus of this war and not vladimir putin s focus with all of this occurring the same
this so-called nuclear powered cruise missile, designed to invade the u.s. it s extremely difficult to know how large the actual amount of radiation release was. we don t know very much about the reactor itself, so we don t know how big it was. and the readings are kind of all over the place. news of the russian monitoring station, falling silent, was confirmed by the comprehensive test ban treaty organization. the suspicion by armed control experts is that russia wants to hide the data that could give the u.s. and others information about just how badly that cruise missile test failed. shepard: the u.s. has been doing some muscle testing of its own. that s right. these are the first ground launched missiles of the u.s. has tested since pulling out all of the nuclear forces treaty. they have long been barred.
that water turned out to be 10,000 times the level that would normally be at that part of the plant. there shouldn t be water at that part of the plant anyway. now what officials are saying is the only way it could be that contaminated is if there was some kind of leak from the reactor itself, either a crack in the core perhaps or perhaps leaking from the pipes that go in and out of the reactor. they don t know exactly how much is leaking. they don t know how long it s been leaking or exactly what caused it. i could have come from the initial explosion some three days after the tsunami, the hydrogen explosion. it also could have come from the aftershocks. they ve had several including one tonight, not too long ago. the question now is exactly what to do. they can t send those workers down in the basement anymore to start hooking up those electrical cables like we ve been talking about for so long. now that is off limits until they figure out exactly what to do and how to get the radioa
allegedly as a last resort. why is this possible solution considered a last option in this case? well, this we re not talking about nuclear reactors here. we re talking about the spent fuel storage pools. okay. i don t think they re considering the racketers to be covered but the spent pools, storage pools, this may be a last-ditch effort if they cannot maintain cooling of the pit. so they could fill it up with concrete, sand, bus but they have to be careful. you want to make sure that it s borated so you don t have a nuclear reaction by doing this. so these spent fuel rods, is that the most volatile, the most concerning element of anything that would be at the fukushima dai-ichi power plant? the spent fuel rods don t the fuel in the reactor itself, certainly the most dangerous, but it is in the primary containment. so it is relatively safe at this