Radioactivity Leaking News Today

And whats being done to stop tainted food grown near that plant from getting to your dinner plate. could some, though, already be in your fridge? scary. >> good story coming up. also later, who is more likely to stay unemployed over the long term, the men or women? well bring you the results of this astonishing new study. some reasons why one sex is doing better than the other. it may surprise you. >> and you hear all the time that men make more on the dollar than women but these new stats -- ...

Spent fuel is not nearly as well protected as whats in the reactors. the reactor cores are inside hardened internal reactor structures like this, right? the spent fuel is in pools. and its up here. three-foot-deep -- excuse me, 39-foot-deep pools that are not inside the hardened internal reactor structures like the reactor cores are. theyre just up there on that fourth floor of those buildings. those buildings that are not in great shape, as can be seen in the first moving pictures released toda...

Still trying to come to grips with what exactly is going on there and how safe is it. it seems right now to be that, you know, the pressure is rising inside the reactor, two of the reactors, which is very dangerous, because if that happens, that might lead to cracks opening and radioactivity leaking. in order to get the pressure down, people have been trying all sorts of things, sea water in there and releasing vapors that may contain a small amount of radioactivity. >> and yumiko, are you getti...

Kilometers to the south and west or 150 miles. as we fly you into the plant, we have 20 kilometer radius evacuated because of potential radioactive leak. i want to pull this out because we do have communities spread, this is not densely populated here, but as we begin to pull out, if we have more radioactivity leaking here we begin to get into trouble because theres sendai to the north, 90 kilometers to the north, and deeper reds indicating denser population. sendai has 1 million people living i...

Theyre just up there on that fourth floor of those buildings. those buildings that are not in great shape, as can be seen in the first moving pictures released today of reactors 3 and 4. these images were filmed from one of the helicopters that was trying to drop water onto the reactors below. shredded buildings are what is supposed to contain any radioactivity leaking from spent fuel pools inside those buildings. now, that would not be a huge issue if the spent fuel pools were intact, if they w...

Radioactivity leaking from spent fuel pools inside those buildings. now, that would not be a huge issue if the spent fuel pools were intact, if they were full of water, if those fuel rods were under 20 or 30 feet of water in there, because the water would not only keep those rods cool, the water would also have a shielding effect on the radioactivity as well. but if the pools are destroyed or empty or leaking or if the water in them is heating up to the point where it may boil off, then the fuel...