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They have now said they re worried about the overheating of spent fuel at both reactor three and four. and it s very dangerous if the spent fuel is exposed. they ve said some of it has been exposed already. and what you risk by exposing the spent fuel is more major releases of radiation. it s not meant to be outside of water. and it does not it can decompose. in fact, it can burn. and so you have to be very vigorous in trying to stop the heating of the spent fuel. the japanese officials, i guess yesterday their time, raised thç issue of there s a low probability event, but who would have thought it s even possible, what s called a criticality accident in a spent fuel pond, where the chain reaction, kind of the nuclear reaction, could start again. and so they re also rushing to try to put in neutron absorbers that can stop that from happening. and so they re trying to get ....

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