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Outside the facility. now, of course theres been a lot of concern about how much radio activity is going up in the steam and smoke, and again, you know, it gets dispersed quite rapidly. i know theres a lot of concerns and fears, but so far the radiation readings have not been worrisome. >> now, you point out in detail three different deep of rad agyags, and the gamma radiation is the real worry. why is that? isms gamma radiation is basically just like x rays. and the nuclear cores, theyre basica...

Zone, theyll have radiation suits to protect them. between the boots and the gloves, you do lose a little decks tarmxterity so there will things troops cant do as well. the as a matter of fact a full-face air-purifying respirator which means theres no air supply in there. but these cartridges on the side would filter out any radioactive particles. which brings up yet another problem -- communication. it would be a lot harder for the team to understand what im saying while im wearing this mask. a...

Provide water, provisions and other things for the people working there, who are isolated, and to corden the area off. we do have some capabilities to operate in this kind of environment, but its not very strong. >> were talking about concerns about radiation, are they equipped properly with suits and defense mechanisms based perhaps on nuclear war fare theaters? >> we train all the time in this kind of environment against chemical and biological weapons, and our troops have suits to protect the...

Television. and as we go through this broadcast, were just going to talk over the video and just let you look at it for yourself. look at this. that was probably a neighborhood once. now its a field of destruction. these are the streets. police on the streets. cars trying to get through when they can. most of it, were told, is just uninhabitable. look at that. people trying to figure out exactly whats going on. theyre wearing masks. many people close to the source of that explosion at a nuclear ...