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Is, you know, you have the roof blown off and that exposes the fuel but generally i guess the expectation is that you can keep filling up that pond with water, generally there is about at least 30 feet of water above those fuel rods and all of that acts as radiation shielding and cooling and the problem is as that water goes down, youre going to have a range of radiation risks and if there is a fire, you wont only get those gases, youll have particulate matter and thats a very serious situation ...

News, japanese officials saying workers at the plants are unable to continue operations due to radiation risks. im here with dr. sanjay gupta and also from m.i.t. jim walsh. jim, again, if this is the final 50 workers who were the only workers left at the fukushima daiichi plant after several hundred had been evacuated days ago, this is extraordinarily alarming news. >> well, it means two things. it means that it is a highly, highly radioactive area, and theyre withdrawing the 50 people because ...

So, again, the breaking news, japanese officials saying workers at the plants are unable to continue operations due to radiation risks. im here with dr. sanjay gupta and jim walsh. jim, again, if this is the final 50 workers who were the only workers left at the fukushima daiichi plant after several hundred had been evacuated days ago, this is extraordinarily alarming news. >> well, it means two things. it means that it is a highly, highly radioactive area, and theyre withdrawing the 50 people b...

Radioactive steam burst from another. it prompted remaining workers to be yanked and more residents to flee the area. >> if the fuel rods are exposed the radiation material inside the container could seep out. >> its also causing the people of tokyo 140 miles away to get very nervous. >> this is tokyo and normally the sidewalk would be packed with people but fears over possible nuclear catastrophe are keeping a lot of people off the streets. >> snarled with traffic looked like a sunday. warnings...

Boron into these spent fuel ponds at the same time theyre trying to get water that would cool it. i think the spent fuel ponds are the most urgent. but weve been surprised, and so you have to worry, have containments been breached in two of the reactors? will more radioactive contamination come out? will there be a meltdown? theres a lot to worry about, unfortunately. >> there is a lot to worry about. and what does it tell you that they had to briefly evacuate the 50 workers who were there, that...

Tsunami is going to be contaminated. its mixed with every household chemical, theres oil and potential radiation risks and theres the issues with all different types of things mixed in that rubble. they have to handle it carefully. >> thank you for joining us. we appreciate your special insight. >> thank you. that wraps up this hour for me. im contessa brewer. thank you for watching. ill see you back here tomorrow at noon eastern and 9:00 a.m. in the west. more u.s. military teams arrive in ja...

Water and, people with fractures to the hospital and triage them and keep their wounds clean and how do you get lungs clean from people who partly drowned. bill: before you get to all of that you have to get access to them and from best we can tell it is still very very, difficult. >> no question, you have 84 teams out there, trying to get to these people and, once you get them, where do you take them, hospitals are clearly going to be overloaded and hospitals that are used to taking care of peo...

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To the cooling pumps. two of the workers today were sent on to a radiation treatment hospital. >> lets talk more about what the government is saying, when it comes to the precautions for the residents living in that area. here in the states, its been recommended that people stay -- we were told that people should be staying at least 50 miles away from this fukushima plant. but what are they saying to people living so close by? is it still remaining just 19 miles right now, the prim, that theyre ...

Radioactive steam burst from another. it prompted remaining workers to be yanked and more residents to flee the area. >> if the fuel rods are exposed the radiation material inside the container could seep out. >> its also causing the people of tokyo 140 miles away to get very nervous. >> this is tokyo and normally the sidewalk would be packed with people but fears over possible nuclear catastrophe are keeping a lot of people off the streets. >> snarled with traffic looked like a sunday. warnings...