Containment Pools News Today

Dominic? >> reporter: jon, the reason theyve got to do that is because there are such high levels of radioactive water now building up, they need to remove water that is contaminate today a lesser degree out of containment pools into the ocean to make room for that much more dangerous water. of course, the big issue is because of so much runoff water now being sprayed onto the plant and coming off the various reactors, those tanks are just going to fill up even quicker, so at some point the japa...

Breach somewhere. which means the water levels keep dropping, potentially exposing the fuel rods even more. they believe the rods have been exposed to such an extent that if the water keeps dropping there could be a full meltdown. its a very difficult job by no mean is it easy. we are hearing a variety of leaks at the plant found in five separate places. that very dangerous stuff. it has a long life, thousands of years. these huge pools of radioactive water so radioactive that four hours exposur...

There. and that could cause an even difficult situation, make it that much more difficult. >> shepard: back to the breaking news of the moment, adam, yesterday, when reactor number 4, in the northeast corner of these containment pools, when that caught fire yesterday, radiation levels were seen to be 10 times higher than normal. then they went down after a few hours. now that fire is up and burning again. what we are led to believe, what we are led to believe to be the exact same spot. what does...