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The reactor will go down from the fission products and the ability to cool that core will improve with time. >> we were talking offset, you have a concern that were not getting all the information from the tokyo electric power company and the government. you understand you think theyre trying to balance the concern for creating a panic, but at the same time youre concerned were not getting all the information. >> no, thats right. we should be hearing reports on what are the radiation levels. >> ...

Radioactive material. were 48 hours past the point where the nuclear fission stopped here. a lot of vet worst of the radio activity will have died away. were self-day s away from safety. but i believe the response has been proportion its proportion its a and efficient. >> how long to get the levels back to where its deemed safe? >> it depends how efficient at getting the sea water into the nidle of the plant. my understanding of reactor number one. they decided they werent going to try and save ...

Been evacuated. another 180,000 people live up to 20 kilometers from the plant and theyre being moved away from that area today, amid fears of radioactive material could be released. >> so the official death toll in japan stands at 801, but that will rise, and the number of people missing unclear. the official figure is 678, but one coastal town reports half its population, about 9,500 people, is unaccounted for. all of the devastation and now the possibility of a nuclear catastrophe, japanese o...

We know radiation has been released and its affecting people. the chief cabinet secretary addressed that as well. >> translator: people who were evacuated on buses, among them nine people, after diagnosis. we have confirmed they may have been exposed to radioactive material. four out of nine had a reading of about 40,000 which was the highest. so their clothing or on the surface of their skin, they have been exposed to radioactive material. now they are trying to make sure that they have not int...

Any of this? >> yeah. its a great question. and youre right to ask it. well, when the weather is in your favor, the wind will blow any effluent, any of the vapor, anything thats vented or escapes from the plant, could blow it out to sea. if it blows east. but if it blows west, it could blow it back on to japanese territory or further on into east asia. and disburse it. now, if it rains, thats a good news/bad news situation. the rain will cleanse some of that material, radioactive material out of...

And ukraines children noeshl plant. the water supply to the reactor was mistakenly closed. the core shut down but a series of human and instrument errors led to an overheating situation, similar to one were seeing at fukushima. very little radiation escaped into the atmosphere. the chernobyl disaster in 1986 proves to be more devastating to the environment. ne technicians shut down the power regulating and safety systems, and removed most of the control rods from the reactor core. a chain reac...

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...

It right there at the daiichi plant. injured four workers. additional danger now is the impact of a nuclear meltdown, which is when fuel in the reactor overheats, allowing radioactive material to escape into the air. the evacuation zone around the plant has been widened to 20 kilometers, affecting about 200,000 people. japanese media reports quote the prime minister as saying 3,000 people have been rescued. for more on how those operations are going we have patrick fullen on the phone, a commu...

As we begin to see an area of low pressure moving in from the south and east. well briefly have a southwesterly wind and back to northwesterly wind. i want to be clear, these are surface wins that will affect japan locally and any spread of radioactive material if, only if, we have a significant event at that power plant, then we talk about jet stream win as loft at 30,000 to 50,000 feet and if radioactivity get theres we share that with the entire plant plant planet only if theres a major core ...

Several hundred times its normal operating power. and a big explosion right in the very center of the reactor where the fuel was. they have fragments of fuel. 150, 250 meters away from the plant and an enormous cloud release of radioactive material. were 48 hours past when nuclear fission stopped here. a lot of the very worst of the radio activity will have died away were several days away from safety. but i believe that the response has been proportionate and efficient. >> workers pouring sea w...