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why the media blackout on this increasingly severe nuclear disaster here offer some answers as well gunter director of the rac reactor oversight project of beyond nuclear paul welcome back thanks again for having us tom it's appreciate your being here i it's a shame though that this is just continuing hundred sixty days now in fact that that clip that we just played of the guy in the diet testifying was sent to me by a dear friend of mine who is japanese and lives in tokyo he's they're really starting to get worried about this this. cracks of the planet radioactive steam coming out of the earth that sounds an awful lot like and my knowledge of this is limited to having seen the jane fonda movie but it's a lot like the china syndrome the core melting down through the earth and hitting the water table right that's that's clearly a concern that we've had all along that we know that now that the there have been three meltdowns at the reactors at this six units and. the vessel has failed now what seems to be the situation is that is that this korean this mill to reactor core has burned through

the nation's capital so will this quake serve as a wake up call here to offer his take on this is gunter director of reactor oversight reactor oversight project at the nuclear power welcome back to the program thanks again for having us great to have you what's the latest from the north anna plant well i think there right now the concern is what kind of damage happened at the plant we're. going to be monitoring this what we understand is that the plant is undergoing some surveillance now. but i think without a question there has been structural damage to the plant we're most concerned about but buried pipe that carries radioactive water underneath the plant there's probably eight to ten miles of very pipe carrying radioactive tritium and other isotopes and that could very well have ruptured broken and is leaking into groundwater right now is there any evidence that it is or isn't is a speculation and can start over with you know we saw when the. earthquake happened back in two thousand and five that a nuclear power plant in illinois hundreds of miles away the drizzt a nuclear power stati