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It causes the explosion. it was causing the explosion for the top of the outer containment. they have to release that. its a risk they have to take, knowing they still have the pressure cooker. the main containment structure around the reactor. they say that that is still intact. now you are hearing about radiation in the air. lets have some perspective. the latest explosion at the number two reactor may have leaked radioactive materials in to the air. the plant operators say its reading had rea...

Efforts failed this time and thats why the explosion damaged the steel containment structure. government officials evacuating emergency workers out of that area right away. and just urging people, anybody that is left within that 12-mile radius to just get out. now, we got a sense of just how urgent the situation was when we heard the prime minister speak in a nationally televised address earlier today. he went as far to tell people who were outside of that evacuation zone to be sure to stay ind...

Material. and company executives have publicly apologized. in the event of a large meltdown, the japanese government has distributed 230,000 doses of stable iodine to evacuation centers that experts say there isnt a significant health risk yet. >> the amount of radiation that is likely to be released is going to be relatively small compared to an accident like chernobyl. >> were just learning that a nuclear industry official here in the united states says that the primary containment structure o...

History, that was chernobyl where there was no containment structure. it blew up. in the end, ten years later, when all the facts were in, there were less than 10 fatalities, from that explosion. only people right near the plant were affected by the radiation, a thousand people got leukemia, 998 were cured, and, there were absolutely no effects whatsoever of the radiation that moved down range, hundreds of miles, as we sprikted. it was predicted that tens of thousands of people would get cancer ...

Some towns reporting they cannot handle all the dead bodies that have washed ashore. and evacuation centers are now reporting they are running out of food and water as well. >> akiko, just amazing to hear some of the details there. we know this has had an impact on you as well. you said some of the workers at that plant have been asked to leave. i know they were staying there, trying to keep the reactors cooled, but now theyve been told to evacuate as well? >> reporter: they did. we did get a ch...

We have the chernobyl, of course, in our deep memory of the soviet union, where that occurred, and that was the worst. heres chernobyl. it has the highest rating, a seven. the levels below that are at five, three mile island, that got a five. the japanese officials are saying now that the situation at fukushima right now, the one were looking at, that plant is still a four. give us a sense of what that means, seven being chernobyl, five being three mile island, and they be the difference not jus...

Greater than we want it to be in order to operate -- [ talking over each other ] we have a containment structure that is not likely to release the radiation. if it did, most of the radioactive particles have a short half life. chernobyl was a number 7. it had no containment bidding. it totally exploded. there was a -- cloud of radiation they said was going to kill tens of thousands of people and deform children. 10 years after the accident the u.n. produced a 1200 page report pointing out there ...

In order to operate -- [ talking over each other ] we have a containment structure that is not likely to release the radiation. if it did, most of the radioactive particles have a short half life. chernobyl was a number 7. it had no containment bidding. it totally exploded. there was a -- cloud of radiation they said was going to kill tens of thousands of people and deform children. 10 years after the accident the u.n. produced a 1200 page report pointing out there was no long term impact on hea...

Not even close, it appears to be fine. obviously there was a leak, that was an issue, but chakd cause a significant problem. >> the problem with oyster career is theres significant corrosion to the containment structure. i think you showed your design earlier of what the it looks like inside. the containment is the last line of defense. thats the carbon steel reinforcement. theres a lot of corrosion there, something that our organization uncovered several years ago. so its vulnerable to collapse...

Would be maintaining constant and not decaying as it is or reports show that pressure is dropping. >> in terms of that word containment, it is a word we use commonly not as jargon, it is meant to be several types of structure. containment could be the outside building that surrounds the reactor as a whole. that was what we saw the explosion do so much damage to in the first two explosions, but containment also refers to the smaller containment around the core itself, around the reactor itself? >...