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Sets of nuclear material that we have to worry about. the nuclear material inside the reactors and the nuclear waste material which is in the cooling pool. this fire is in the cooling pool which you said already is not inside the containment structure which can deal with pressure and with shielding radiation. so the fear if this fire continues and continues to spew up a cloud of steam, that steam will contain particulate matter of items like eye -- iodine and -- these are materials which are hig...

Right now were in a very serious situation to the north and east. its been going on for just about 45 minutes. they now realize a fire has either reignited or has continued to burn since yesterday in the northeast corner of reactor number 4. and, again, the significance of that is there fuel rods are exposed, the atomic matter can come into the air and that could cause enormous problem for anyone downwind. so lets get to team fox coverage as the news breaks here in japan. we have reporters in ne...

And uranium. they have been sitting in what amounts to a swimming pool for a nuclear fuel rods. as long as the water is in there and the temperature is maintained, the rods wont cause any problems. the fear is in this case that this time yesterday the water goes so low that these two created a fire. that con k. send out radiation and nuclear materials into the air. so, they thought they put it out. just about 45 minutes ago, we learned from the nuclear regulatory agency here that they did not pu...

Meltdown in three mile island back in 1979 was a level 5. this is a 6. "the fox reports" chief correspondent jonathan hunt with perspective from our newsroom in new york. jonathan, how does this compare to, say, chernobyl, specifically? >> chern noble was the worst nuclear accident. most people this will not become that bad. chernobyl was bad because it was a huge explosion and badly built nuclear plant with effectively no containment vessels. now, at fukushima there are containment vessels, obv...

Communities being crushed to mere rubble z >> people are shrieking with terror, way too common. ideos ou. there are fears of a nuclear melt down that is terrorizing japan. there is a fire burning in the number four nuclear reactor plant. the prime minister is warning residents within 12 miles, evacuate. and anyone within 19 miles, stay inside. this is after three explosions in three days, an earthquake in tsunami-ravaged japan. the prime minister says radiation has spread into levels seem, quote...

>> shepard: breaking news continuing coverage from reactor 4 at the fukushima nuclear plant. i have been telling you that this fire has either reignited or they now admit has been burning ever since yesterday. were not quite sure what it is that they are saying. but we do know there is a fire burning and the important thing is that these are spent fuel rods. not inside a larger containment zone for lack of a better phrase, not as well protected as the other three because that reactor was off lin...

Products. we were in a 7/11 store overnight. half the shelves are empty. water bottles, only allowed to get one bottle of water at a time in some store. not rationing but each store trying to take care as many as they can. frances nuclear safety authority ranking the crisis at fukushima plant a level 6. a serious accident. on the so-called international nuclear and radiological scale event to. put this in noah a little context. it ranks it on a levels of 1 to 7, right? and originally this was th...

>> shepard: gordon chang on the line with us with context and perspective for us. gordon, thanks so much. again, repeating the latest headline. tepco the tokyo electric power company and the federal government here report that the fire at reactor number 4 is now, quote, under control, unquote. what that means, we cant put in any more context. i can tell you this. a fox urgent for you now. we have just gotten word of new information regarding the reactor number 2. youll remember there was an expl...

Or so. and as that happens we have updates throughout prime time in the united states. dr. steven garner is with us now. friend of program, radiology at new new yorks methodist hospital. he was head of the disaster committee at saint vincents hospital which was the closest one to ground zero during the attacks of 9/11. an advisor at the time to mayor rudy giuliani. dr. garnerrer we are looking at a situation which is very difficult for all of us to understand in large put but not fully because w...

>> shepard: and they are not the only ones frankly. today the leader of the united nations nuclear watchdog urged japan to provide better information about exactly whats happening at that power plant. gordon chang joins us now a journalist and author of "nuclear showdown" on the line with us. agency press or afp has just reported that tokyo electric power company now says that this fire is under control. well, its wednesday now japan. on tuesday afternoon when a similar fire happened, in almost ...