that the radioactivety doesn't come out of the water in the basement, the radioactivety that has been captured there. >> rose: and the worst scenario is? >> the worst scenario i guess... well, there's another... not too far down the road now is another issue. the spent fuel pools of these reactors contains much more fuel than the reactors. the fuel is not as hot as the reactor fuel and it doesn't... therefore is not evaporating the water that's covering it as fast as the water has been evaporated in the reactor but at some point if that water isn't replenished, that fuel will become dry and heat up and we have problems with that. i think in a way the two explosions that have happened that may have helped-- because they've basically glon the roof off above the spent fuel pools-- so they could have conceivably used helicopters to bring in hoses to actually top those pools up in two of the reactors. >> rose: david, what's your assessment of how the japanese government is handling this? >> well, so far the reaction, at least as you can see from the far, is pretty good when you consider ho