Cooling Operation News Today

Be a potentially dangerous situation. but no abnormalities a t the nuclear plant right now. but at a separate plant, we have just learned that the cooling operation, one of the reactors, has stopped. when the cooling pumps stop due to loss of power or what not, that is the type of scenario that led to the meltdown in 2011. but tepco says they do not believe theres an immediate danger, because the storage tanks can keep the nuclear r0ds for up to seven days without power and theyre confident they...

>> fires this big tend to smolder for a very, very long time and there can be flareups, just dangerous. what are they doing to avoid that? >> reporter: well, throughout the day and after things -- after they got the flames under control and the actual fire, what has been going on is the cooling operation, where they basically let the embers burn out, and they get to the areas -- they hose down the areas they werent able to get to last night. this is a 63-story tower and the problem is it snaked ...

Helicopters have now pulled back. we have word they are bringing in water canons to try to keep this rather desperate cooling operation going. this is nuclear safety in extremist. joining us now, a pulitzer prize winning journalist. shes a best selling author of betrayal of trust, collapse of total public health. laurie, thanks for coming in. >> thank you. >> there is a human health catastrophe upon us in terms of the quake and tsunami. major health challenge from the reactors, potential escalat...

Specially equipped to protect from radiation. they were dropping liquid on the daiichi facility. they are saying the liquid was dropped just on reactor three, not on reactors three and four as they said earlier. they said there was going to be planned 40-minute long shifts for helicopter water air lifts. from what we can tell, they did not complete a full 40-minute shifts today. we dont know why. helicopters have now pulled back. we have word they are bringing in water canons to try to keep this...

This rather desperate cooling operation going. this is nuclear safety in extremist. joining us now, a pulitzer prize winning journalist. shes a best selling author of betrayal of trust, collapse of total public health. laurie, thanks for coming in. >> thank you. >> there is a human health catastrophe upon us in terms of the quake and tsunami. major health challenge from the reactors, potential escalation of that if things get worse there. how can a government do this well? are there models of go...

>> these plants are vital for new york city and westchester county. >> reporter: since ipd yan point was built anti-nuclear protesters have tried to shut down the project. its the fish that threaten to close it. they have just determined that indian point is killing so much fish and its eggs its violating the clean water act. >> the fish in the hudson have taken a beating and finally getting their due. >> reporter: this nuclear plant relies on the water. halfway down the river bed there are gian...

Quote-unquote concession iran could make that would cause rapture in the white house. >> eric: and you mentioned parchan, and, the satellite shows a waterspout that could have been part of a cooling operation, they believe of the nuclear facility. do you think the iranians have, indeed, gone through and cleaned that up? so that the u.n. inspectors wouldnt find anything? >> we have seen this many times before. in the iranian nuclear weapons program, as they try and remove evidence of radioactivit...

Other parts. because workers can only go in for 15 minutes due to the health and safety levels its making the job doubly difficult. they are not sure where the source has come from. is it the result of the water being sprayed in and actually diluted a lot of the other radioactive water? is it coming from somewhere? they dont know. until they can actually start to drain some of it off and people can go in for locker they are not entirely sure. one of the nuclear safety agency people were telling ...