Beck: On The Alleged Meltdown

Do people know that the fuel rod assembly is inside the containment vessel, which is inside the containment building, which is inside the actual reactor building? Melted fuel rods are not a reactor meltdown.

Glenn goes over what happens during a nuclear meltdown, and how there are several huge differences between the Japan nuclear crisis and the Chernobyl crisis. The props that Beck is using include: pots, bowls and of course, M & Ms.




An estimated 70 percent of the nuclear fuel rods have been damaged at the No. 1 reactor and 33 percent at the No. 2 reactor, of the Fukushima nuclear power plant -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday.

The reactors' cores are believed to have partially melted when their coolingsytems were lost after Friday's magnitude 9.0 earthquake rocked Fukushima Prefecture and other areas in northeastern Japan.