it s sort of like a teapot on the stove. as you pour increasing amounts of water in that saltwater in that teapot, the steam boils off and leaves the salt behind. so that salt is now inside the reactor vessel and settling in the bottom of the reactor. what we re worried about is that salt may be placed on the side and it can do two things. it insulates them to a certain degree and can block the flow of cooling water. do we know about the conditions of whether there s enough water now to cover the spent fuel rod pools? we don t have any detailed information. we will get our first glimpse of that as they restore power, as they get their instrumentation and controls back. from the main control rooms, then we ll be able to monitor the levels and the temperatures.
containment. as we restore those plant systems and start moving the plant to stable condition, we need to start moving large quantityties of radioactive water. and that is going to require meticulous oversight and management. there s also concern about something i hadn t heard about before, but salt buildup inside the reactors which could cause harm to heat up even more. are you concerned about this and explain like where there s so much salt in these reactors, from the saltwater? yeah, anderson, for almost two weeks now, we ve been injects about 100 gallons a minute of seawater into these reactors. it s sort of like a teapot on the stove. as you pour increasing amounts of water in that saltwater in that steam pot, the water boils off and leaves the salt behind. so that salt is now inside the reactor vessel and settling in the bottom of the reactor.
restore the systems and move the plant to stable shut down condition we need to start to move large quantities of radioactive water outside of primary containment and that is going to require meticulous oversight and management. there is concern about something i hadn t heard about before but salt build up in the reactors that could cause harm and heat up even more. are you concerned about this and explain why there is so much salt in the reactors, from the salt water? yeah. for almost two weeks we have been injecting 100 gallons a minute of sea water in to these reactors. it s sort of like a teapot on the stove. as you pour increasing amounts of water in that, salt water in the teapot the water boils off and leaves the salt behind. and so it is on surfaces inside the reactor vessel and settling on the bottom of the reactor. what we are worried about is
are you concerned about this and explain why there s so much salt in these reactors, from the saltwater? yeah, anderson, for almost two weeks now, we ve been injecting about 100 gallons a minute of seawater into these reactors. it s sort of like a teapot on the stove. as you pour increasing amounts of water in that saltwater in that teapot, the steam boils off and leaves the salt behind. so that salt is now inside the reactor vessel and settling in the bottom of the reactor. what we re worried about is that salt may be placed on the side and it can do two things. it insulates them to a certain degree and can block the flow of cooling water. do we know about the conditions of whether there s enough water now to cover the spent fuel rod pools?
the san andres fault is safe, i think that should raise questions right there. when we re told that production margins are not the priority, we should look at the nuclear power station just outside of toledo, ohio. both the nuclear regulatory commission and first energy nuclear basically allowed corrosion through boric acid leaking out of that reactor for years to eat through 6 3/4 inches of steal down to 3/16 of an inch of a terrible accident that would have blown the reactor out into the containment and challenged that containment system and, you though, they had rust, pictures of rust flowing off the top of the reactor vessel head when the plant was allowed to go back online for two years. and they had those inspections so they have been setting aside.