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Whee a meltdown but it was contained and thats -- were not there yet but if we.god forbid were to get to this point, we would hope the containment vessel would nevertheless hold that radiation and that material in so that we would not have a chernobyl style accident. >> why are they pumping in sea water now at this point? >> yeah. because they got no other choice. you dont pump in sea water as your first choice or your fifth choice. theyre doing it now because theyre trying to keep that reactor ...

Over the past 24 hours. and the search through the rubble is stretching into a third day. japans prime minister says more than 3,000 people have been rescued but its now feared the death toll from the monster quake and tsunami will climb to 1800 or higher. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. youre in the situation room. i want to get to the breaking news that were following, the fear that a meltdown at one of the nuclear reactors in japan ma...

The 6.1 tremor struck. were told more than 140 aftershocks jolted the island over the past 24 hours. and the search through the rubble is stretching into a third day. japans prime minister says more than 3,000 people have been rescued, but its now feared the death toll from the monster quake and tsunami will climb to 1,800 or higher. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." want to get to the breaking news that we...

Of what happened then, paying a price for that radiation fallout that occurred in chernobyl. matthew chance is in direct contact with officials at the international atomic energy agency in vienna. there are conflicting reports right now about whether one of japans nuclear reactors is actually experiencing a meltdown right now. it is a very alarming situation, i must say. experts tell cnn a full-fledged meltdown allowing fuel rods to be exposed could result in temperatures rising to 5,000 degrees...

>> how dangerous of a situation is this? >> well, thats a question of some debate. theyre trying to get a better power supply to those plants. there are reports theyre trying to bring in more batteries, trying to bring in diesel generators to get more water purposed onto that core to keep it cool. in the meantime, they have staged evacuations around one of the plants, a ten kilometer radius. >> and some reports that maybe the u.s. government was trying to do something to help, is that true? >> t...

They had a backup system. those were some diesel engines, but those were knocked out by the tsunami. they went to a battery system. thats what theyre using now, but those have limited life and its very much a stop-gap measure. things are being monitored very close, anderson. >> how dangerous of a situation is this? >> well, thats a question of some debate. theyre trying to get a better power supply to those plants. there are reports theyre trying to bring in more batteries, trying to bring in di...

Thats what caused the problem with the cool ant. water must be kept at a certain level to keep it cool. they generate so much heat, it turns into steam and is converted into electricity. when the water drops, you expose the reactor and it heats up. they are trying to pump more water into there to get it to a certain level to cool the reactor. there have been concern about melting of the outer casing of the fuel. they have been talking about the cesium, the radioactive material that has been rele...

>> what about the steam that comes from the reactors. how problemmatic is it -- >> some of the steam has already been released. one n one of the reactors, earlier the japanese released some of the pressure that included some radio active steam but not in any concentration to hurt anybody. whats important now is to contain the fuel core to keep it cool. i think they are cooling down now. and prevent it from melting down. once the core melts down, everybody is in trouble. >> in the past, has every...

Separate those images. there is no fire at the nuclear reactor. thats an oil refinery engulfed in flames. bill: the heat gets trapped inside and you have to teach it cool. so farther doing okay with that. at home now, a california spokesperson warning northern california specifically, the area near crescent city likely to see 6-7 foot waves. its possible. the only tsunami to take lives in the continental u.s. occurred in crescent city 46 years ago. 1964. trace gallagher is with us. >> reporter: ...

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