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guess i would differ on is probably it wouldn t go all the way to a meltdown in the pool. but it doesn t matter because the long before that, the volatile radioactivity would have been driven off by the heat. you don t need to go to a meltdown to release the radioactivity that we are concerned for the environment. so just the damage to the fuel rods which could happen just by them being exposed to the air is enough to release radioactivity, that is the worst case. the cladding around the uranium pellets, these metal zirconium tubes would burst. and at that point the heat would drive off these the boiling point of these elements that we re worried about is much below the temperature of the fuel would have at that point would drive it off into the atmosphere. and the other thing is that, in fact, it s more than a crack in the roof of this facility. they are big holes in the walls, have been blown by that hydrogen

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