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nuclear meltdown and nuclear catastrophe. just hours ago, a watchdog group in washington had predicted this had moved past a level six catastrophe and was heading toward something like chernobyl, a number seven. lets go to the fast-moving developments in addition to pulling those 50 workers who had been risking little lead their lives to try to stave off a nuclear meltdown. there have been major problems at reactor number four. earlier it was spitting out very high levels of radiation....

Postulate what type of health risk and low dose exposure may have generated for this and quite honestly, its not going to threaten the population as a whole. you know, but you know, well have to wait and see, but i doubt if were going to see a significant risk of global contamination from this instance. >> harris: not the sort of situation that you described in japan, a very, very tender thing to watch there, with the nuclear meltdown looming, thats what the scientists keep telling us. james, se...

Plant operators using sea water, sea water, rather, pumping it into several reactors to keep them cool. the rising temperatures threatening to cause a radioactive leak or a complete meltdown. areas surrounding the plants affected now evacuated because of fears of radiation leak. all of them happening the earthquake and tsunami that no one, obviously, can control. the best they could do was to be prepared. james is a security and defense analyst and senior fellow with the heritage foundation. goo...

A, a large scale disaster. everybody in the world, everybody that owns a nuclear power plant is, you know, wants to do whatever they can to get the situation under control. >> harris: and i asked that, james, because you know, what were hearing now is that one of the-- the plant experiencing trouble, the second plant there that we know of, no explosions there, but some sort of trouble, emergency, is saying that the radiation levels that were leaking have gone down. what does that tell you? >> we...

Water, sea water, rather, pumping it into several reactors to keep them cool. the rising temperatures threatening to cause a radioactive leak or a complete meltdown. areas surrounding the plants affected now evacuated because of fears of radiation leak. all of them happening the earthquake and tsunami that no one, obviously, can control. the best they could do was to be prepared. james is a security and defense analyst and senior fellow with the heritage foundation. good to see you. >> good to b...

Risk and low dose exposure may have generated for this and quite honestly, its not going to threaten the population as a whole. you know, but you know, well have to wait and see, but i doubt if were going to see a significant risk of global contamination from this instance. >> harris: not the sort of situation that you described in japan, a very, very tender thing to watch there, with the nuclear meltdown looming, thats what the scientists keep telling us. james, security and defense analyst, th...

Everybody in the world, everybody that owns a nuclear power plant is, you know, wants to do whatever they can to get the situation under control. >> harris: and i asked that, james, because you know, what were hearing now is that one of the-- the plant experiencing trouble, the second plant there that we know of, no explosions there, but some sort of trouble, emergency, is saying that the radiation levels that were leaking have gone down. what does that tell you? >> well, that, you know, is cert...

Water in other resources to ensure the reacters continue to be cooled. >> we also have dispatched subject matter experts both reactor experts and expert on emergency response and we are in consultation with them and we will make sure that any requirement they have we are prepared to meet. >> we heard early about concerns about radiation exposure, 17 helicopter members were found today to have very, very low levels of radiation on their bodies and their clothes and they were scrubbed down and giv...

A, a large scale disaster. everybody in the world, everybody that owns a nuclear power plant is, you know, wants to do whatever they can to get the situation under control. >> harris: and i asked that, james, because you know, what were hearing now is that one of the-- the plant experiencing trouble, the second plant there that we know of, no explosions there, but some sort of trouble, emergency, is saying that the radiation levels that were leaking have gone down. what does that tell you? >> we...

Postulate what type of health risk and low dose exposure may have generated for this and quite honestly, its not going to threaten the population as a whole. you know, but you know, well have to wait and see, but i doubt if were going to see a significant risk of global contamination from this instance. >> harris: not the sort of situation that you described in japan, a very, very tender thing to watch there, with the nuclear meltdown looming, thats what the scientists keep telling us. james, se...