and kevin camps radioactive waste watchdog to be a nuclear has testified before officials at the highest levels of the u.s. federal agencies dealing with radioactive waste management in the department of energy and nuclear regulatory commission the e.p.a. welcome to both of you gentlemen thank you first of all was there anything in that the paul that was in error. not at all i mean this is a. we've set a precedent now with nuclear accidents that i think is going to remain with us we're certainly concerned about the future and certainly the future of residents in japan and and kevin the the it's been sixteen months now is the focus the anywhere anything close to being out of the woods well just in the last couple of weeks there was a breakdown and the cooling system in the unit for pool for high level radioactive waste storage so the fear for many many months since the beginning of this catastrophe was that the unit for pool could suffer a catastrophic drain down of cooling water from a large earthquake but what was shown repeatedly now over the course of months is that simple breakdowns of the mechanics will start that pool to boiling and if it boils for long enough for a couple three days it's going to boil the cooling water down to