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>> in yap jap, traces of radiation found in the local nood supply found near the nuclear power plant. s are works to restore electricity at the plant and firefighters pump in ocean water to cool down nuclear fuel rods. some radiation detected in the tokyo tap water. 150 miles away. they are treming live from osaka, japanment >> yeah, bad news and conserve ability good news on the nuclear reactor front. everies are feverishly to get down the temperature control the radiation in the troubled react...

To unfold further. there is also the matter of the spent reactor fuel pools, which are not in a containment, which are several stories above ground, and they are next to the reactor tops that also have to have water circulating through them to keep them cool, and if for whatever reason the water were to boil off or to drain, then you have the risk of a very severe radiation fire occurring, and so the problem has not been, i think, resolved in any remote sense of the word. i think theyre still in...

Four reactors there . trouble with two of them. cool system damaged by the earthquake. we saw an explosion there and there was a plume of radioactive gas and right now 12 miles from that area and evacuation from that area . people are very concerned about the worst case scenario for something like that . that is a core melt down. officials hope it is under controll . finally harris, rescue and relief efforts in full, full operational mode. 50,000 japanese troops involved and not just japanese, t...

A full-scale core melt which would then eat through the bottom of the steal vessel thats holding whats left of the fuel and potentially lead to a large-scale radiological release that it would affect potentially tens of thousands of people. >> is it encouraging to you, that theyre using seawater to flood this area where this explosion has taken place and that might help cool it down. do you buy that? >> actually, i dont. i think this is a measure of dispration. and thats what concerns me. i dont...

Helpful they say although it ruins the plant. >> yeah it will corrode the core. that is no question about that. the salt, seawater, is not desirable from a normal operating point of view. megyn: that is the least of their concerns. >> yeah. >> i want to ask you, millard, lastly why do you say that it is, you dont think it is likely were facing total core meltdown which obviously no one wants to see? >> because, they are able to get some partial procedures in place. i mean, im presuming the infor...

>> well, it can go to several possible outcomes, i know. the worst of which would be a total core melt with substantial release to the atmosphere and the environment. that i dont think will happen given that theyre able to cope, even partially with covering some of the rods with the techniques they have been using. there may be other things they have to do. they may have to bring some boats in close to shore that are, have pumping capability on them and, and make sure that they have enough boric...